Epigrams, divine and moral by Sir Thomas Vrchard, Knight.

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Title: Epigrams, divine and moral by Sir Thomas Vrchard, Knight.
Author: Urquhart, Thomas, Sir, 1611-1660.
Publication: London :: Printed by Barnard Alsop, and Thomas Favvcet,; 1641.
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19. Ingratitude is such a common vice, that even those
who exclame most against it, are not
freest of it.
IT would not be an universall cace,
Nor could each man have so true cause to fall
In rayling 'gainst ingratitude; unlesse
There were some reason to complaine of all:
Thus, who have with unthankfulnesse beene met,
May from such dealing this instruction draw,
That if themselves did ever prove ingrate,
They get but justice from the Talion-Law,
To th'end they may from those their faults refraine,
Which they so ugly see in other men.

Epigrams, divine and moral by Sir Thomas Vrchard, Knight.

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19. Ingratitude is such a common vice, that even those who exclame most against it, are not freest of it.

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