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

The EMPEROR.

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Set thine House in Order; for thou shalt die, and not live.

Isaiah xxxviii. 1.

There shalt thou die, and there the Chariots of thy Glory shall be the Shame of thy Lord’s House.

Isaiah xxii. 18.

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

Dispose thy Kingdom’s great Concerns Intrusted to thy Care, So that to pass to other Worlds Thou quickly may’st prepare. For when the Time shall come that thou Shalt quit this mortal Throne, Thy utmost Glory then shall be A broken Car alone.