. 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 . In numrous Joys their rapid LifeThe thoughtlefs Virgi
. 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 . 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. This is true Love, and this alone,Which Two in One conjoins, And in AfFedions ftrongeft BandsAnd mutual Friendfhip binds. This Union fhall, alas ! endureBy much too fhort a Time ; One Death fevere can two divideWhom Bands of Wedlock join. C 36 ] The DUTCHESS. Thou jhalt not come down off that Bed on which thouart gone upy but Jhalt Jurely die. 2 Kings i. 16.
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