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Phyala Lachrymarum: Or A Few Friendly Teares, shed over the dead Body of Mr Nathaniel Weld Mr of Arts of Emanuel Colledge in Cambridge

who in the short journey of his life, died betweene the five and sixe and twentieth yeare of his youth, 1633. Together with sundry choyce Meditations of Mortalitie [by William Lathum]
Lathum, William
 
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MEDITATIONES QUÆDAM DE AMICITIA, DE VITÆFRAGILITATE, DE MORTE, ET DE ANIMA.

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Come il simulacro del Re di Babilone.

Fraile flesh (how ever goodly thou appeare
In outward shew, and glorious as the Sun:)
How can a little sicknesse change thy cheer?
And thy lives thred, how ever purely spun,
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With paine how is it broke and quite undone?
How seem'st thou like that image over all,
Whereof y'dreamt that King of Babylon,
Whose bulke was Gold and costly Minerall,
But Oh poore prop, the pillers and the basse
Were crumbly clay which did sustain this mighty masse.
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