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Embellished with etchings on copper, after the fashion of Master Francis Quarles. Designed and written by, Johann Abricht [i.e. Jonathan Birch

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EPIG.

[The motto “mutatur non mutari”]

The motto “mutatur non mutari”
Seems to have put Mammon in a quandary;
As the writing of old, displayed on the wall
Staggered Belshazzar before his fall—
Old tempter to evil, thou may'st fret, fume, and fuss,
For thy doom, likes the doom, of old Sisyphus!