<p>The Aethiopian Princes at their feastes,<lb/> Did vse amid their cates, and costly cheere<lb/> A deadmans head, to place before their guestes,<lb/> That it in minde might put them what they were:<lb/> And PHILLIP dayly caused one to say,<lb/> Oh King remember that thou art but clay.<lb/> If Pagans could bethinke them of their end,<lb/> And make such vse of their mortalitie,<lb/> With greater hope their course let christians bend,<lb/> Vnto the haven of heavens foelicitie;<lb/> And so to liue while heere we drawe this breath,<lb/> We haue no cause to feare, or wish for death.<lb/> <foreign lang="la">Perge tuo laute genio indulgere PHILIPPE,<lb/> Imperium cernis quam brevis hora manet:<lb/> Non properans timeo lethum mens conscia recti<lb/> Inculcat quovis tempore CHRISTE veni.</foreign> </p>

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A hand from the clouds, holding a skull, like 'Ethiopian princes' do when reminding their guests of their mortality

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