Barnfield's Poems/Poems: in diuers humours/A Comparison of the Life of Man

by Richard Barnfield

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A Comparison of the Life
of Man.

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

FINIS.