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

The FRIAR MENDICANT.

Reading edition

Such as sit in Darkness, and in the Shadow of Death, being bound in Affliction and Iron.

Psalm cvii. 10.

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

Some Men, the World to circumvent By Fraud and Falsehood try, By feign’d Religion, Sin to hide From ev’ry mortal Eye: Of Piety an ardent love They outwardly profess; But inwardly they are the Sink Of all Voluptuousness: But when the End shall be at Hand, They like Reward shall have, And Death, by Myriads, shall mow down The Wicked to the Grave.