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I saw him going the way of all flesh.

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  2. Vain the ambition of kings Who seek by trophies and dead things To leave a living name behind, And weave but nets to catch the wind.
  3. Call for the robin-redbreast and the wren, Since o'er shady groves they hover, And with leaves and flowers do cover The friendless bodies o…
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  5. But keep the wolf far thence, that's foe to men, For with his nails he'll dig them up again.
  6. Prosperity doth bewitch men, seeming clear; But seas do laugh, show white, when rocks are near.
  7. Glories, like glowworms, afar off shine bright, But looked to near have neither heat nor light.
  8. Of what is't fools make such vain keeping? Sin their conception, their birth, weeping: Their life, a general mist of error, Their death, a …

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