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Richard Barnfield2734003Barnfield's PoemsPoems: in diuers humours
A Comparison of the Life of Man
1878Edward Arber



A Comparison of the Life
of Man.

MAns 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.