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

The MISER.

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Thou Fool, this Night thy Soul shall be required of thee: Then whose shall those things be which thou hast provided?

Luke xii. 20.

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

This Night shall Death, with Iron Hand, Thee, griping Wretch, subdue; And in the narrow Grave entomb’d, To-Morrow thee shall view. Therefore, when thou, of Life depriv’d, Shalt far from hence be gone, What Successor shall thy vast Heaps Of endless Riches own?