University of Virginia Library

Search this document 
The Furies

With Vertues Encomium. Or, The Image of Honour. In two Bookes of Epigrammes, Satyricall and Encomiasticke. By R.N. [i.e. Richard Niccols]
  

expand section 

Epig. XXIX. In mortis timorem.

How base hath sinne made man to feare the thing,
That men call Mars; which yet hath lost all sting,
And is but a priuation, as we know,
Nay is no word if we exempt the O.
Then let good men the feare of it defie,
All is but ó when they shall come to die.