University of Virginia Library

Search this document 
Epigrams: Divine and Moral

By Sir Thomas Vrchard

expand section 

7. Riches without further, can make no man happy.

As he, whose body is not well in health,
To search for ease, from bed to bed will rise:
So to a mind, that is diseased, wealth
Is not the end: but change of miseries;
And that, which made his poverty to vexe him,
Will make his riches likewise to perplexe him.