University of Virginia Library

Search this document 
Epigrams: Divine and Moral

By Sir Thomas Vrchard

expand section 

32. That if we strove not more for superfluities, then for what is needfull, we would not be so much troubled, as wee are.

If by the necessary use of things,
The ornaments wee measure of our honour,
And not by that, which fancy doth suggest us:
Wee will not need those wares, the Marchant brings
From forraine Countries: and withall exoner
Our minds of what might otherwise molest us.