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<NAME>Elspeth Healey</NAME>
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<ITEM>Proofed and reviewed as part of batch B080312.pdcc.</ITEM>
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<HEAD>The vvhole Mape of mans Life. Or A true de&s;cription of the uneertainty of Man's frail Life, State and Ending: very u&s;efull for all people in the&s;e Times.</HEAD>
<OPENER>To be &s;ung with the Tune of, <HI>I am but Young and Growing.</HI></OPENER>
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<L>GOd gre<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">t me Lord for to begin,</L>
<L>Mans life to try loadned with &s;in:</L>
<L>How weak and frail our lives we &s;pend</L>
<L>And never thinks upon our end.</L>
<L>The golden world is pa&s;t and gone,</L>
<L>Before this age the flood was kown,</L>
<L>And &s;ince the Flood in <HI>Noah's</HI> time,</L>
<L>The Silver Age, were in her prime.</L>
<L>Then Men were wondrous wight and &s;trong</L>
<L>For in that Age men lived long;</L>
<L><HI>As Abraham, Methu&s;alem,</HI> and <HI>Noah</HI></L>
<L>Which God's mo&s;t holy word doth &s;how</L>
<L><HI>Daniel</HI> foretold this Letter Age,</L>
<L>And Pensic forth in Words m<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;t &s;age;</L>
<L>The world from <HI>Silver</HI> is turn'd <HI>to Bra&s;s</HI></L>
<L>From <HI>Bra&s;s</HI> to <HI>Iron</HI> &s;hall they pa&s;s.</L>
<L>And then from <HI>Dro&s;s</HI> to <HI>Du&s;t</HI> and <HI>Clay,</HI></L>
<L>Wor&s;e and wor&s;e from day to day;</L>
<L>They &s;hall grow weak and not endure</L>
<L>Our lives uncon&s;tant and un&s;ure.</L>
<L>Conceiv'd in &s;in, and iniquity,</L>
<L>Born we are to mi&s;ery,</L>
<L>Subject to gripping Grief and Pain,</L>
<L>In Care and Wo we do remain.</L>
<L>Sickne&s;s and &s;orrow &s;till we find,</L>
<L>Di&s;ea&s;'d in Body, Di&s;tre&s;t in Mind,</L>
<L>Plung'd in this Gulf, and lack of Lu&s;t,</L>
<L>Forgetting we mu&s;t come to Du&s;t.</L>
<L>Some remember &s;eldom or never,</L>
<L>That from this life we mu&s;t di&s;&s;ever,</L>
<L>And when no ionger they can live,</L>
<L>Cryes Lord Je&s;us our &s;ins relive.</L>
<L>O Man in thy pro&s;perity,</L>
<L>weigh with thy &s;elf adver&s;ity,</L>
<L>Remembr Man what tbou ha&s;t been,</L>
<L>And what thou ha&s;t heard, known, or &s;een,</L>
<L>Were thou a King or Emperour,</L>
<L>Or yet a bloody Conquerour;</L>
<L>A Noble, or Ignoble, of what dgree,</L>
<L>Gentle or Semp<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">e, we mu&s;t all die.</L>
<L><HI>A</HI> Vi&s;count, Baron, or a Laird,</L>
<L>A Duke, a Marqne&s;s, or a Lord;</L>
<L>A Gentleman, or a Squyr by Birth,</L>
<L>The poore&s;t Beggar that lives on Earth:</L>
<L>Ther's no re&s;pect of per&s;ons bad,</L>
<L>With Death who kills both good and bad</L>
<L>The proud, the meek, the &s;ick, the whole</L>
<L>In Mould con&s;umed mu&s;t be all.</L>
<L>Throughout the whole Circle of Earh's Glob,</L>
<L>Every place is his abode,</L>
<L>He is no Serjant takes no Fee,</L>
<L>No Gifts no Bribes, will &s;et thee free.</L>
<L>No pleading, playing, or yet reque&s;t;</L>
<L>will ran&s;om thee; if he arre&s;t:</L>
<L>Our Bodies in the Grave mu&s;t lye,</L>
<L>Out Souls to Heaven or Hell mu&s;t hye;</L>
<L>Surely our &s;ins then are forgiven,</L>
<L>Or then be depo&s;td of Heaven;</L>
<L>But if we be hurl'd down to Hell,</L>
<L>Our Pangs and Plagues, no tongue can tell</L>
<L>Then have a care and good heed take;</L>
<L>That thou thy filthy &s;ins for&s;ake,</L>
<L>Plea&s;ures are vain we daily &s;ee,</L>
<L>Remember then that thou mu&s;t die.</L>
<L>Live ye to thirty or fourty three,</L>
<L>Fifty is the mo&s;t and then we die;</L>
<L>Though in Years we wax, yet do we wain</L>
<L>And to Childi&s;hne&s;s returns again:</L>
<L>Perhaps grows blind or deaff,</L>
<L>Weak, crooked, or l<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">me, ye<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> on the Earth</L>
<L>We can hardly either &s;tand or go,</L>
<L>Such mi&s;ery man's born unto.</L>
<L>Learn not to live, but learn to die,</L>
<L>And think thy ending day draws n<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">e,</L>
<L>Remember death but do not fear,</L>
<L>Mo&s;t &s;ure it is, we're frangers here.</L>
<L>Death is to us a Me&s;&s;enger,</L>
<L>And when he comes he will not &s;pare;</L>
<L>The Rich, the Poor, the Young, nor Old,</L>
<L>Mu&s;t all perforce con&s;ume in Mould.</L>
<L>Wert thou &s;o wi&s;e as <HI>Solomon,</HI></L>
<L>Or yet had the &s;trength of <HI>Samp&s;on,</HI></L>
<L>The carved work, or <HI>Cre&s;us</HI> &s;tore,</L>
<L>Or <HI>Lazarus</HI>-like to live &s;o poor;</L>
<L>Or <HI>Dives</HI> like, to tru&s;t in wealth,</L>
<L>Fond fool thou do&s;t deceive thy &s;elf,</L>
<L>Tru&s;t in the Lord, for Mercy cry,</L>
<L>Remember man that thou mu&s;t dye;</L>
<L>How &s;oon, how &s;udd&eacute;n, where, and when,</L>
<L>It is unknown to mortal men;</L>
<L>Whether by night, or yet by day,</L>
<L>When Death doth come there's no delay</L>
<L>But fa&s;t away we all mu&s;t pa&s;s<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>Like &s;ading flowers, and withering gra&s;s</L>
<L>Pilgrims all remain we here,</L>
<L>Heaven is our homes God &s;end us ther<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>Now &s;ince we know &s;ure what we are,</L>
<L>Let us Repentance then prepare</L>
<L>Here is no pre&s;ent help for us,</L>
<L>But our dear Saviour of Bli&s;s.</L>
<L>Forgive us Lord, who art above,</L>
<L>And love us with thy tender Love;</L>
<L>That we thy Servants &s;till may be,</L>
<L>To &s;erve Thee to Eternitie.</L>
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<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
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