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Emblems of Mortality; representing, in upwards of fifty cuts, death seizing all ranks and degrees of people

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Because thou hast hearkened unto the Voice of thy Wife, and hast eaten of the Tree of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it, &c.

Genesis iii. 17.

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Against God’s Will the direful Fruit Of the forbidden Tree The Husband by his foolish Wife To taste induc’d we see. A grievous Death they both deserv’d For this Offence so great, And we, their Children, subject are To the same Laws of Fate.

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