<p>Why, silly Man! so much admirest thou<lb/> Thy present Fortune? overvaluing so<lb/> Thy Person, or the beauty of thy Brow?<lb/> And Cloth'd, so proudly, wherefore dost thou goe?<lb/> Why dost thou live in riotous Excesse?<lb/> And Boast, as if thy Flesh immortall were?<lb/> Why dost thou gather so? Why so oppresse?<lb/> And, o're thy Fellow-creatures, Domineere?<lb/> Behold this Emblem, such a thing was hee<lb/> Whom this doth represent as now thou art;<lb/> And, such a Fleshlesse Raw-bone shalt thou bee,<lb/> Though, yet, thou seeme to act a comelier part.<lb/> Observe it well, and marke what Vglinesse<lb/> Stares through the sightlesse Eye holes, from within:<lb/> Note those leane Craggs, and with what Gastlinesse,<lb/> That horrid Countenance doth seeme to grin.<lb/> Yea, view it well; and having seene the same<lb/> Plucke downe that Pride which puffs thy heart so high;<lb/> Of thy Proportion boast not, and (for shame)<lb/> Repent thee of thy sinfull Vanity.<lb/> And, having learn'd, that, all men must become<lb/> Such bare Anatomies; and, how this Fate<lb/> No mortall Powre, nor Wit, can keepe thee from;<lb/> Live so, that Death may better thy estate.<lb/> Consider who created thee; and why:<lb/> Renew thy Spirit, ere thy Flesh decayes:<lb/> More Pious grow; Affect more Honestie;<lb/> And seeke hereafter thy Creatours praise.<lb/> So though of Breath and Beauty Time deprive thee,<lb/> New Life, with endlesse Glorie, God will give thee.<lb/> </p>

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A skeleton is held by a hand from the clouds as a 'memento mori'

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<p>IN HUNC INTUENS PIUS ESTO.</p>

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86(IN HUNC INTUENS PIUS ESTO)

<p>This Ragge of Death, which thou shalt see,<lb/> Consider it; And Pious bee.</p>

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In hunc intuens pius esto