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Miscelanea

Meditations. Memoratiues. By Elizabeth Grymeston

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[For what's the life of man, but euen a tragedie]

For what's the life of man, but euen a tragedie,
Full of sad sighes, and sore catastrophes?
First comming to the world with weeping eye,
Where all his dayes like dolorous trophes,
Are heapt with spoiles of fortune and of feare.