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Epigrams: Divine and Moral

By Sir Thomas Vrchard

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22 A very ready way to goodnesse, and true VVisedome.

Who vertuously would settle his endeavours,
To mortifie his passions, and be wise:
Must still remember on received favours,
Forgetting alwaies by-past injuries;
For that a friend should prove ingrate, is strange:
And mercy is more Noble, then revenge.