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Epigrams: Divine and Moral

By Sir Thomas Vrchard

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21. To one bewailing the death of another.

You have no cause to thinke it strange, that he
Hath yeelded up his last, and fatall breath;

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For 'tis no wonder for a man to dye,
Whose life is but a journey into Death:
Nor is there any man of life deprived
For age, or sicknesse: but because he lived.