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

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But they that will be rich, fall into Temptation, and a Snare, and into many foolish and hurtful Lusts, which drown Men in Destruction and Perdition.

1 Timothy vi. 9.

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

That worldly Goods they may procure, And Wealth immense obtain, Their Breasts Men hourly will expose, Temptations to sustain. But Men whom Dangers thus surround, Fortune compels to bend Their Footsteps to those beaten Paths Which to Destruction tend.