English Poetry. Thomas Urquhart. Epigrams. The Third Booke. № 37. The advantages of Povertie. Томас Эркарт.

Thomas Urquhart (Томас Эркарт)

Epigrams. The Third Booke. № 37. The advantages of Povertie

IF you have povertie, you have no sumptuous,
But a most easie ghuest, secure, and quiet:
Who will preserve your mind from being presum∣ptuous,
From prodigality, excessive ryot:
From vicious pleasures, Robbers, and the stealth
Of theeves, which ills befall to those, have wealth.

Thomas Urquhart’s other poems:

1. Epigrams. The Third Booke. № 36. Of Death, and Sin
2. Epigrams. The Third Booke. № 40. Of wisedome, in speech, in action in reality, and reputation
3. Epigrams. The Third Booke. № 23. Of foure things, in an epalleled way vanquished each by other
4. Epigrams. The First Booke. № 36. How difficult a thing it is, to tread in the pathes of vertue
5. Epigrams. The Third Booke. № 19. The Parallel of Nature, and For∣tune

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