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Epigrams: Divine and Moral

By Sir Thomas Vrchard
Urquhart, Thomas (1611-1660)

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13. That to employ our thoughts on the study of mortality, and frailty of our nature, is a very necessary, and profitable speculation.

Be not from death (by any meanes) a stranger:
But make her your familiar friend; that if
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The cause require it, vilipending danger,
You may step forth t'embrace her, without griefe;
For the more boldly you intend to meet her:
The relish of your life will prove the sweeter.
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