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On DEATH. 
44 Lord cardinal , if thou haft hope in heavens joys 
44 Hold up thy hand l Make ftgnal of that hope ! 
44 he dies y and makes no ftgnf” 
Alas ! how many of my acquaintance have I feen, as far as I 
could obferve them, not fo ambitious as the cardinal, but live in 
indolence ; and, with refped to religion, die in ftupidity! What 
indeed cm we expect? As we live we fhall probably die; ex- 
cept that the unwelcome hour fometimes brings with it dread- 
ful fears. Dr. young tells us, 
44 Men may live fools ^ hut fools they cannot die.” 
But, I think, if men live without a plan, they can hardly die 
with one. Without a Beady principle of belief, reduced to ac- 
tion, we muB exped as great confudon in thought, as to reli- 
gious concerns, through the whole progrefs of life, and in the 
finifhing Broke by death, as in secular concerns of import- 
ance, where no regular method is obferved in the condud of 
them. 
But this lady feems to have been regular throughout : her 
behavior in the great article of death, makes me think of Dr. 
garth’s notion, who feems to have mixed the philofopher with 
the poet and phylician. He fays, 
44 7o die is landing on fome ftlent Jhore , 
44 Where billows never beat , nor temp efts roar , 
** Ere well we feel the friendly ftroke } ’ tis o'er. 
44 Tie 
