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

The ASTROLOGER.

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Knowest thou it, because thou wast then born? or because the Number of thy Days is great?

Job xxxviii. 21.

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

Thou, by contemplating a Sphere Which Heav’n’s bright Face does show, Events which shall to others chance, Pretendest to foreknow. Tell me, if thou of Fates to come A skilful Prophet art, When to the Tomb the Hand of Death Shall urge thee to depart? Behold the Sphere, which to thy View My Right-Hand now does hold, By that the Fate which thou shalt find May better be foretold.