Pain makes his downy couch sharp thorns appear,

And ev'ry feather prick him like a spear.

Thus, when all forms of death about him keep,

70He copies death in any form, but sleep.

Poor walking-clay! hast thou a mind to know

To what unblest beginnings thou dost owe

Thy wretched self? fall sick a while, and than

Thou wilt conceive the pedigree of Man.

Learn shalt thou from thine own anatomy,

That earth his mother, worms his sisters be.