The Treasury of Musick Containing ayres and dialogues To Sing to the theorbo-lute or basse-viol. Composed |
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Youths Vanity.
Though you are young, and I am old:
Though your veyns hot, and my blood cold:
Though Youth is Moist, and Age is Dry;
Yet Embers live when Flames do die.
Though your veyns hot, and my blood cold:
Though Youth is Moist, and Age is Dry;
Yet Embers live when Flames do die.
The tender Graff is Easily broke,
But who shall shake the sturdy Oke?
You are more Fresh and Fair than I;
Yet Stubs do live when Flowers do die.
But who shall shake the sturdy Oke?
You are more Fresh and Fair than I;
Yet Stubs do live when Flowers do die.
Thou that thy Youth dost vainly boast,
Know Buds are sooner nipt with Frost:
Think that thy Fortune still doth cry,
Fond Youth, To morrow thou must die.
Know Buds are sooner nipt with Frost:
Think that thy Fortune still doth cry,
Fond Youth, To morrow thou must die.
And if to morrow thou Dy'st not,
To Die ere long will be thou lot:
Though thou of late didst Age deny,
Must welcome Death, and learn to Die.
To Die ere long will be thou lot:
Though thou of late didst Age deny,
Must welcome Death, and learn to Die.
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