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] |
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Come il simulacro del Re di Babilone.
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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 |  |
Come il simulacro del Re di Babilone.
Fraile flesh (how ever goodly thou appeareIn 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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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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