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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Epigrams, English.
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"Epigrams, divine and moral by Sir Thomas Vrchard, Knight." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A64606.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 14, 2025.

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29. How magnanimous a thing it is, in adversity, patiently to endure, what cannot bee evited.

VVHat grievous weight so ever be allowed By misadventrous fate, wherewith to load ye,

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Shrinke not thereat, but yeeld your shoulder to it, And with a stedfast mind support your body; For valiant spirits can not be o'rcome: Though Fortune force their bodies to succumbe.
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