<p>Why, with a trembling faintnesse, should we feare<lb/> The face of Death? and, fondly linger here,<lb/> As if we thought the Voyage to be gone<lb/> Lay through the shades of Styx or Acheron ?<lb/> Or, that we either were to travell downe<lb/> To uncouth Deapthes, or up some heights unknowne?<lb/> Or, to some place remote, whose nearest end<lb/> Is farther then Earths limits doe extend?<lb/> It is not by one halfe that distance, thither<lb/> Where Death lets in, as it is any whither:<lb/> No not by halfe so farre, as to your bed;<lb/> Or, to that place, where you should rest your head,<lb/> If on the ground you layd your selfe (ev'n there)<lb/> Where at this moment you abiding are.<lb/> This Emblem shewes (if well you looke thereon)<lb/> That, from your Glasse of life, which is to run,<lb/> There's but one step to Death ; and, that you tread<lb/> At once, among the Living, and, the Dead.<lb/> In whatsoever Land, we live or die,<lb/> God is the same; And, Heav'n is, there, as nigh<lb/> As in that place, wherein, we most desire<lb/> Our Soules, with our last breathing, to expire.<lb/> Which things, well heeding; let us not delay<lb/> Our Iourney, when we summon'd are away,<lb/> (As those inforced Pilgrims use to doe,<lb/> That know not whither, nor, how farre they goe)<lb/> Nor let us dreame that we in Time, or Place,<lb/> Are farre from ending our uncertaine Race.<lb/> But, let us fixe on Heav'n, a faithfull eye,<lb/> And, still, be flying thither, till wee die.<lb/> </p>

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A naked winged boy with one foot on an hourglass and one on a skull; in the background: Moses holding the Tables of the Law on Mount Sinai and two angels and a devil fighting over a soul(?)

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<p>TRANSITUS CELER EST ET AVOLAMUS.</p>

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<p>Where er'e we dwell, the Heav'ns are neere;<lb/> Let us but fly, and wee are there.</p>

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Transitus celer est et avolamus