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Mortality behold and fear

DMI number:
15794
First Line:
Mortality behold and fear
Last Line:
Buried in dust once dead by fate
Poem Genre / Form:
Couplet
Themes:
Death, Hopelessness / vanity of life, Religion[Westminster Abbey.], and The monarchy (heads of state)
Related People
Author:
Francis Beaumont
Confidence:
Confident (50%)
Comments:
'On the Tombes in Westminster': Poems (1653, ESTC R208894), sig. M2v.
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First Line:
Mortality behold and fear
Last Line:
Yet to this shape all must be brought
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Content/Publication
Title:
A collection of epigrams [vol. 2] [T170823]
Page No(s):
XLVII
Poem Title:
On the Tombs in Westminster.
Attribution:
Attributed To:
Not attributed
Title:
A collection of epigrams. [Vol. II] [ESTC T130692]
Page No(s):
XLVII.
Poem Title:
On the Tombs in Westminster.
Attribution:
Attributed To:
Not attributed
Title:
Sepulchrorum Inscriptiones: Or a curious collection of above 900 of the most remarkable epitaphs [vol I] [T55764] [gb]
Page No(s):
p.126
Poem Title:
On the Tombs in Westminster.
Attribution:
Attributed To:
Not attributed