The Mirrovr of Maiestie or, the Badges of Honovr conceitedly emblazoned: with emblemes annexed, poetically vnfolded [by Sir Henry Goodere?] |
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EMBLEME 27.
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EMBLEME 27.
Sleepe, being the type of death: darknesse must beThe shade of that, which we euanisht see:
Men so departed, that it may be said,
A Bird, as well, as such a man, is dead:
Chase, while thou liu'st, the cloudes of death away:
Or dying, neuer looke to see more day.
You haue on earth, so studied heau'ns delight,
That you can neuer be obscur'd: though night
Should threaten to obscure noone-day, yet will
Your Noble mind vanquish deaths darkest ill.
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