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8

Perish warmth
Unfaithful to its seeming!

First published in Lit. Rem., i. 279.


9

Old age, 'the shape and messenger of Death,'
'His wither'd Fist still knocking at Death's door.'

First published in Lit. Rem., i. 279. Quoted from Sackville's Induction to a Mirrour for Magistrates, stanza 48: