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dying 5 When Avarice makes us the 

 fport of death ; When even David grew 

 politick! y cruell 5 and Solomon could 

 hardly be faid to be the wifcft of men. 

 But many are too early old, and before 

 the date of age. Adverfity ftretcheth 

 our dayes> mifery makes * ^ilcmenas * One 

 nights, and time hath no wings unto it. night as 

 But the moft tedious being is that which 

 can unwifli it felf, content to be nothing, 

 or never to have been, which was be 

 yond the Mfe-contentof jib* who cur 

 led not the day of his life, but his Na 

 tivity : Content to have fo farre been, as 

 to have a Title to future being 5 Although 

 he had lived here but in an hidden ftate 

 of life, and as it were an abortion* 



What Song die Syrens fang, or what 

 name ^*chill** adorned when he hid 

 himfelf among women, though puzling 

 Queftions are not beyond all conjcfture. krhu unto 

 What time the perfons of thefe Oflua- 

 Ties entred the famous Nations of the 

 dead, and flept with Princes and Coun- in stt 

 fellours, might admit a wide folution* f{ 

 But who were the proprietaries of thefe Horn. 

 bones, or what bodies thefe alhes made /* 



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