Pleasant dialogues and dramma's selected out of Lucian, Erasmus, Textor, Ovid, &c. ... By Tho. Heywood |
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The Argument of the Dialogue betwixt Earth and Age.
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The Argument of the Dialogue betwixt Earth and Age.
In Earth and Age is to the life exprest,How bad all Men are, when they are at best:
How fraile, how fading, and in their great'st glory
Unsettled, wretched, vaine, and transitory.
It shewes all Learning, Beauty, Youth, and Strength,
All Pompe, all Wealth to nothing comes at length:
No Statue, Structure, Trophee, so sublime,
Which is not quite lost and defac' t by Time.
O who can then our common Parent blame,
Since all things she produceth that haue name,
As they haue birth from her still-teeming wombe,
So the same place is likewise made their tombe.
No wonder then her griefe so far exceeds,
Since she is forc't to bury all she breeds.
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