What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid! heard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtle flame, As if that everyone from whence they came, Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And resolv’d to live a fool, the rest Of his dull life.
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Who then to frail mortality shall trust But limns on water, or but writes in dust.
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What then remains but that we still should cry For being born, and, being born, to die?
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The world’s a bubble, and the life of man Less than a span.
