Because Dame Nature gave the strongest
The right and power to live the longest;
That since “to die is but to sleep,”[88]
And poor, diseased, are scabby sheep,
That none need care a single button
If we should make them all dead mutton;
That death is but a trivial thing,
Because a toadstool, or a king,
Will, after death, be sure to rise
In bats and bed-bugs, fleas and flies.[89]