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Epigrams: Divine and Moral

By Sir Thomas Vrchard

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4. How to become wise.

Who would be truly wise, must in all haste
His mind of perturbations dispossesse;
For wisedome is a large, and spatious guhest:
And can not dwell, but in an empty place,
Therefore to harbour her, we must not grudge,
To make both vice, and passion to dislodge.