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Quotes from Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations — James Shirley

1596–1666 England

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All buildings are but monuments of death,
All clothes but winding-sheets for our last knell,
All dainty fattings for the worms beneath,
All curious music but our passing bell:
Thus death is nobly waited on, for why?
All that we have is but death's livery.

Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: James Shirley (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.