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

The DRUNKARDS.

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And be not drunk with Wine, wherein is Excess.

Ephesians v. 18.

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

With Wine’s Excess your Souls to drench, Ye mortal Throng, forbear; For Luxury of every Kind, And raging Lust is there. Lest Death assail you unprepar’d, Oppress’d with Sleep and Wine, And, in a Vomit soul, your Souls Compel you to resign.