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Edward Farr, ed. Select Poetry of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth. 1845.

Embleme VIII

XVI. Geffrey Whitney

ALL fleshe is grasse, and witherth like the haie:

To-daie man laughes, to-morrowe lies in claie.

Then let him marke the frailtie of his kinde,

For here his tearme is like a puffe of winde;

Like bubbles smalle that on the waters rise;

Or like the flowers whom Flora freshlie dies,

Yet in one daie their glorie all is gone;

So worldlie pompe which here we gaze vppon:

Which warneth all that here their pageantes plaie,

Howe well to liue, but not how long to waie.