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Funi ut succedat Ferrum, & suspensa secetur;
En! Ferrum & Funis, bina venena, juvant.
Unâ mulctatam, geminâ dum morte parabant
Afficere, in vitam fit rediviva novam.
Naturæ in leges, ac Gentis jura, triumphans
Elusit Fati, Judicis atq́ꝫ, minas.
Nec Medici hoc, Sceleton faciunt, exangue cadaver.
Quod magis est, vivum cedit in Automaton.
Admire not, 'tis no newes, nere think it strange,
Twere wonder if a Woman should not change.
They have mysterious wayes, and their designes
Must be read backward still, like Hebrew lines.
See, these with Death dissemble, and can cheat
Charon himselfe to mak a faire retreat.
Well, for this trick Ile never so be led
As to beleive a Woman, though shee's dead.
In puellam ὑϛερόποτμον à patibulo reviviscentem.
QUæ nuper Medicos vespillonesq́ꝫ fefellit,
Et non unius victima mortis erat,
Quàm benè Netricis titulum meruisse putanda est,
Cùm poterat stamen sic renovare suum?
Englished thus:
Thou more then Mortall, that with many lives
Hast mock't the Sexton, and the Doctors knives:
The name of Spinster thou maist justly wed,
Since there's no Halter stronger then thy Thread.
To the same.
Thou, thine owne Clotho, that knew'st not to feele
The darts of Death, yet woar'st no Buffe,nor Steele.
If with such Art thou canst thy Distaffe rule,
The Souldiers all to thee shall go to Schoole.
