. Emblems of mortality : representing, in upwards of fifty cuts, Death seizing all ranks and degrees of people : imitated from a painting in the cemetery of the Dominican church at Basil, in Switzerland : with an apostrophe to each, translated from the Latin and French : intended as well for the infomation of the curious, as the instruction and entertainment of youth : to which is prefixed a copious preface, containing an historical account of the above, and other paintings on this subject, now or lately existing in divers parts of Europe . Exhaufted Strength my feeble NervesNo longer now does
. Emblems of mortality : representing, in upwards of fifty cuts, Death seizing all ranks and degrees of people : imitated from a painting in the cemetery of the Dominican church at Basil, in Switzerland : with an apostrophe to each, translated from the Latin and French : intended as well for the infomation of the curious, as the instruction and entertainment of youth : to which is prefixed a copious preface, containing an historical account of the above, and other paintings on this subject, now or lately existing in divers parts of Europe . Exhaufted Strength my feeble NervesNo longer now does brace, And, like a Rivers rapid Stream,My Life flows out apace. The Time, which no One can recall,How fwift a Flight has taen ! And nothing but the filent TombFor me does now remain. Tird of the Ills of a long Life, And fick of all its Cares,For fpeedy Death I now addrefs To Heavn my anxious Prayrs. The [ 34 ]COUNTESS. ITheyfpend their Days in Wealthy and in a Mo?nentgo down to the Grave, Job xxi. 13,. In numrous Joys their rapid LifeThe thoughtlefs Virgins wafte, And evry Kind of Pleafure feekWith Eagernefs to tafte. From Cares and Sorrow they are free,No Thought their Minds to tire, A vacant Life, full fraught with Blifs,They earneftly defire. But in the Grave they mail be laid,By Deaths all-piercing Dart, Where he their Pleafures exquifiteShall into Grief convert. C 35 3The NEW-MARRIED COUPLE. The Lord do fo to me, and more alfo, if ought butDeath part thee and me. Ruth i. 17.
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