When man doth die; our body's as the wombe,

And, as a Mid-wife, death directs it home.

455And you her creatures, whom she workes upon,

And have your last, and best concoction

From her example, and her vertue, if you

In reverence to her, do thinke it due,

That no one should her praises thus rehearse,

460As matter fit for Chronicle, not verse;

Vouchsafe to call to minde that God did make

A last, and lasting'st peece, a song. He spake