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A dialogue betw[een] life and death Very requisite for the conte[m]plation of all transitory pilgrims, and pious minded Christians.
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Wates, Richard.
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1657
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Wing W1059; ESTC R232341
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to usefull coine Iewels and treasure that your Ma chants buy In land ajacent or beyond the line Yet all were far too little to suffise For why mans life cannot be bought with price Dives was rich Pirrus a Crown did weare Croesus had millians yet one touch of mine Did cause them tremble with inward feare When wealth and Life at once they must resigne Go change the bags of gold for one poore sheet And lay thee downe at Deaths triumphant feet Onely a grave remaineth for thee Death speakes to old age THou that a hundred winters hast ore-gone Living to see thy daughters daughters son And many imperfections make thee cry Yet 't is infallible all flesh must dye Age pleads for it selfe FVll fourescore yeares of age I am at least And yet the frailty of my flesh desire Those fourscore yeares may farther be encreast But then considering how my senses tire I wish for Death for why I feele Full many griefs even from my crown to heele Bald is my head where once my haire took place Dotage possesseth the better part of sence Furrows and wrincles grow within my face My dried gums stand for my teeths defence The port-holes of mine eares are stopt up quite A cloudy dimnesse hath o'revaild my sight My feete and ancles weake and feeble are That hardly can my upper part support My legs thighes and armes that brawny were Now lanke and thin and leane appeareth for't My inward parts doth feelingly consume Through Tissiek Cough continuall coldnes Rhume My forme growes crooked stooping to the ground Stinking my breath my joynts they tremble all A teasty Coler in me doth abound Yea my whold Microcosme begins to fall And yet me thinks through feare that I could crave One yeare or two forbearance from the grave Death answers old Age. WOnder of wonders that thy frame of clay Thy stinking carkasse and a trunk decay'd Should have desire to one poore future day O! rather wish my stroke be not delaid Thy strength â—t is impair'd through griefe and pâ—ine As borne a child become a child again Thy glasse is run and nature gives thee o're Earth must to earth untill the trump shall sound See thy Sands period not one minute more Thou must survive there is thy deadly wound Youth Wisdom Beauty Strngth Wealth nor old Age. That can the fury of sterne Death asswage Hast thou forgot who suffer'd on the Crosse That all beleevers should to heaven ascend And at thy downefall shall loud voyces sing Death wher 's thy Conquest Hell where is thy sting When thou shalt swallowed be to th' abis Of black Gehema and the gulfe of woe Then shall the voyce of comfort joy and blisse Be to the blessed Come and with me goe Into my Fathers Kingdome and rceive What neither Death nor Time shall from you reave Deaths Acelamation WHo can assist me with a stood of teares I may gush out whole rivers froÌ„ mine eyes And sighes by millions at the voyce I heares That I must be excluded heavenly joyes All mortalls living whilst you yet have breath Live well to dye and dye to live through Death Deaths Memorandum to the middle aged WHen I looke in the glass and note my haires I see some gray and other some impaires But looking farther on records I finde My date almost summ'd up for man assign'd Which rightly noting then I straight begins To number if I could my world of sins But find them numberless it 's not time then To shake off drowsiness and catch my pen 'T is time for me and all the world beside Oyle in our Lamps with speed that we provide Lest that the Bride-groom come we not prepared And so through Satans Wiles become ensnared Yet thinke that in uncertainties t is sure All flesh must dye but when none knowes the houre Mans Meditation TO Meditate of Death and of our end Cannot but make us tremble to offend Because as Death leaves us and fast binds us Judgement as infallible will find us Another PHysitians know or else should know at least How mans health is impaired and how increast And oft mens life prolongs through skill and Art But yet no Physick can withstand Deaths Dart. SIth that the life of wretched mortall man Is but in length much like a span What curious care then should we have in this To spend one haires breadth of that span amisse A Hymne of Prayses to the most blessed and glorious Trinity 1. SIng to the Lord all honour laud and praise that did us raise From earth whereon we tread and being dead These corps of earth shall in the earth be led 2. Vntill the trumpe shall summon us to joyes or sad annoyes Then now 's the fittest time for to refine This drossie earth and make it all divine 3. Sing to the Lord all honour praise and laud and him appland Seith we through Adams fall were wretched all And yet through Christ his mercies did recall 4. And now through faith to good workes joyned we shall live with thee Where Saints and Angells dwell if we repell Stans allurement and the snares of hell 5. Sing to our Saviour Christ laud praise honour under whose banner Let us continuall fight as firme and right Till World the Flesh and Devill be vanquisht quite 6. And to the Holy Chost like praises sing that doth us bring Preserving sanctity Love and Amity Thoughts pure and chast abhorring vanity 7. To Father Sonne and Holy Ghost as right by day and night Let us give prayses due and still pursue The path that leads to blisse bid sinne a diew 8. Let us lay hold upon the present time Death comes in fine This life ended all flesh must Catch time it passeth by and use it just Allegoricall Poem BEhold the towring tree that whilome stood In strength beauty bravely midst the wood Whose far stretcht lâ—mbs was shelter for the beasts And likewise for the birds to build their nest Is now hewen down because he brought foth Such fruits as tend to goodness and to worth So cast into the fire and there to be Burn'd and consumed for an ill-fruited tree Divers Exhortations to cause all men to remember their ends taken out of the holy Scripture In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat thy bread till thou returne unto the ground for out of it wast thou taken for dust thou art and to dust thou shalt returne Gen. 2.19 Deaths first speech to Nature OLd Adam was condemn'd and all his race To eate their bread in the sweat of their face And Scripture saith that from the dust he came And back to dust he must returne againe So this hard doome on Adams sons doth lye First they must labour here then after dye Natures reply T is true this doome to Adams Sons is given To labour here on earth and rest in heaven We must needs dye and are as water spilt upon the ground which cannot be gathered up againe neither doth God respect