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A COMPARISON OF THE LIFE OF MAN.

Mans life is well compared to a feast,
Furnisht with choice of all Varietie:
To it comes Tyme;[1] and as a bidden guest
Hee sets[2] him downe, in Pompe and Maiestie;
The three-folde Age[3] of Man, the Waiters bee.
Then with an[4] earthen voyder (made of clay)
Comes Death, & takes the table clean away.


FINIS.


  1. 1605, no capital T.
  2. Ibid. 'sits.'
  3. Ibid. no capital A.
  4. Ibid. 'a.'