Ormond like other men must die,
For he with a fatigue of victory oppress'd
Laid himself only down to rest.
Finis.
On the Death of James, Duke of Ormond.] Printed in folio, 1688, with the title, On the Death of the Right Honorable the Duke of Ormond: a Pindaric Ode. In Letters from the Dead to the Living, 1702, vol. ii, pp. 24-5, Flatman, with his pipe in his mouth, is introduced complaining that this ode has been vamped up for the death of King William.
Job, Chapter xxvii. Paraphrased.
Verse 8.
Poor Hypocrite (though ne'er so rich), when God shall call
His double, his dissembling soul, how small,