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If there be a Woman in the Case sure I have not liv'd so bad a Life, to gain the dull Reputation of so modest a Coxcomb, but that a Female might down with me, without all this Ceremony. Is it care of her Honour? that cannot be this Age affords none so nice: Nor Fiend nor Goddess can she be, for these I saw were Mortal. No 'tis a Woman I am positive.
Start not, nor deem my spot fled; In me behold the only skull From which, unlike a living head, Whatever flows is never dull. I liv'd, I lov'd, I quaff'd like thee; I died, but earth my bones resign: Fill up thou canst not injure me, The worm hath fouler lips than thine.
"Liv'd to wake each tender passion, And delightful hopes inspire; Died to try our resignation, And direct our wishes higher: "Rest, sweet babe, in gentle slumbers, Till the resurrection morn; Then arise to join the numbers, That its triumphs shall adorn. "Though, thy presence so endearing, We thy absence now deplore; At the Saviour's bright appearing, We shall meet to part no more.
They were very shy of us a while: but at last, hearing us speak Spanish, they came to us, and told us, that they were going to a Fryer that liv'd at an Indian Village towards the S.E. end of the Island. They told us also, that the Harbour of Manila is seldom or never without 20 or 30 Sail of Vessels, most Chinese, some Portugueze, and some few the Spaniards have of their own.
"There was at Ephesus a lady, of so celebrated virtue, that the women of neighbouring nations came to join their admiration with that of her own country: This lady at the death of her husband not content with tearing her hair, or beating her breast, those common expressions of grief; but following him into the vault, where the body plac'd in a monument, she, after the Graecian custom, watch'd the corps, and whole nights and days continu'd weeping; the perswasions of parents nor relations cou'd divert her grief, or make her take anything to preserve life, the publick officers at last, she guarding the body for 'em, left the vault; and lamented by all for so singular an example of grief, liv'd thus five days without eating.
Pray tell us how this sin took place This myst'ry we could never scan, That sin has sunk the human race, And all brought in by the first man. 'Tis said this is our heavy curse Thy sin imputed unto us. "Ad. When I was plac'd on Eden's soil, I liv'd by keeping God's commands To keep the garden all the while, And labor, working with my hands.
And I must sue to him! be witnes, heaven, If this poore life were forfeyt to his mercy, At such a rate I hold a scornd subiection I would not give a penney to redeeme it. I have liv'd ever free, onely depended Upon the honestie of my faire Actions, Nor am I now to studdy how to die soe. Bred. Take better thoughts. Bar. They are my first and last, The legacie I leave my friends behind me.
At this Philaos grew troublesome, and cryed out, "Let us remember the living: He had what was due to him; as he liv'd so he dy'd; and what has he now that any man moans the want of it? He came from nothing, and to his dying-day would have taken a farthing from a dunghil with his teeth; therefore as he grew up, he grew like a honey-comb. He dy'd worth the Lord knows what, all ready money.
And Joseph and his father's house remain'd In Egypt, and he liv'd till he attain'd An hundred and ten years, and liv'd to see Of Ephraim's children to the third degree. And Macher's children of Manasseh's tribe Were also born some time before he died. Then Joseph said, My brethren, lo!
Evelyn, on October 3rd, 1662, "visited Mr. Wright, a Scotsman, who had liv'd long at Rome, and was esteem'd a good painter," and he singles out as his best picture, "Lacy, the famous Roscius, or comedian, whom he has painted in three dresses, as a gallant, a Presbyterian minister, and a Scotch Highlander in his plaid."
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