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Epigrams: Divine and Moral

By Sir Thomas Vrchard

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2 That no man, to speake properly, liveth, but he, that is Wise, and vertuous.

If wee lacke vertue, and good deeds, to hold
Our life into: what serves it us our breath
True life affords not, though it make us old;
Nor lived he that lives not after death;
For in good minds, the lives of men consist:
And they alone mortalitie resist.