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

The GENTLEMAN.

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What Man is he that liveth, and shall not see Death? Shall he deliver his Soul from the Hand of the Grave?

Psalm lxxxix. 48.

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

What Man is he, however brave, Of mightiest Pow’r possest, Who in this mortal World shall live, And Death shall never taste? What Man is he who Death’s fell Dart, Which conquers all, can brave? Who his own Life, by Force or Skill, From Death can hope to save?