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

The WIFE.

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Of the Woman came the Beginning of Sin, and through her we all die.

Ecclesiasticus xxv. 4.

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

From Eve, the Mother of Mankind, Our Parent Adam’s Wife, Sprang Sin, and thence fell Death arose, The Enemy of Life. Let not, howe’er, thy tender Mind To Grief a Victim fall, If Death should thee to quit this World, Like other Mortals, call.