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2. On the contingencie of Actions.
I saw him dead; I saw his Body fallBefore Deaths Dart; whom tears must not recall:
Yet is he not so dead, but that his Day
Might have been lengthen'd, had th'untrodden way
To life beene found: He might have rose agin,
If something had, or somthing had not bin:
What mine sees past, Heav'ns eye foresaw to come;
He saw, how that contingent Act should summe
The totall of his Dayes: His knowing Eye
(As mine doth see him dead) saw he should die
That very fatall howre; yet saw his death,
Not so so necessary, but his Breath
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Had he neglected This, or taken That:
All times to Heav'n are now, both first and last;
He sees things present, as we see them past.
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