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

The JUDGE.

Reading edition

I will cut off the Judge from the Midst thereof.

Amos ii. 3.

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

You who false Judgment do pronounce, For filthy Lucre’s Sake, From Midst of Crowds and Judgment-Seat, I, Death, will quickly take. To Fate’s just Laws ye must submit, Nor ye, alone, contest That pow’r which every Son of Man Has hitherto confest.