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

The HUSBAND.

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What taketh away the Life? Even Death.

Ecclesiasticus xxxi. 27[20].

Remember that Death will not be long in coming.

Ecclesiasticus xiv. 12.

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

The Tyrant Death, O Husband fond, The worst of all its Foes, Is to our Life and its short Course, With constant Steps pursues. Reflect then in thy Prime of Life (Life’s transitory Day) That to thy End it thee conducts By gradual Decay.

Notes in this chapter

Note 1 · The Original of this Passage has no corresponding Words in the Translation of the Bible now in Use, and the above is therefore inserted from