Page:Age and life of man, or, A short description of the natur (sic), rise, and fall, according to the twelve months of the year.pdf/5

 The man doth thrive to thirty-five,

then sober is in mind,

His children shall do on him call,

and breed him sturt and strife;

His wife may die, and to must he

go seek another wife.

Then August; old. both stout and bold

when flowers do stoutly stand;

So man appears' to forty years,

with wisdom and command:

And both provide his house to guide,

children and familie:

Yet do not miss t'remember this,

that one day thou must die.

September then comes with his train,

and makes the flow’rs to fade,

Then man believe is forty-five,

grave, constant, wife and sad;

When he looks on how youth is gone,

and shall it no more see:

Then may he lay, both night and day,

have mercy, Lord, on me:

October’s blast comes in with boasts,

'and makes the flow’rs to fall,

Then man appears to fifty years;

old age both on him call:

The almond tree both flourish hie

and pale grows man we fee;

Then it is time to use his life

remember, man, to die.