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

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Those that walk in Pride he is able to abase.

Daniel iv. 37.

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

Ye, also, who in glitt’ring Pomp Of haughty State are plac’d, A Day shall see wherein yourselves Of bitter Death shall taste: For, as the Grass by Travellers Is trodden on the Ground, So Death shall tread you under Foot, And all your Joys confound.