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Epigrams: Divine and Moral

By Sir Thomas Vrchard

Urquhart, Thomas (1611-1660)

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27. We should not be sorry, to be destitute of any thing: so long as we have judgments to perswade vs, that we may minister to our selves, what we have not, by not longing for it.

To want, what J should have, shall never make
My heart lesse cheerfull; reason still requiring,

That J be pleas'd, whats'ever things J lacke,
To furnish to my selfe, by not desiring;
For not to wish for things, against the griefe
Of feare, and frustrate hopes provides reliefe.