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Mans life is well compared to a feast,

Furnisht with choice of all Varietie:

To it comes Tyme; and as a bidden guest

Hee sets him downe, in Pompe and Maiestie;

The three-folde Age of Man, the Waiters bee.

Then with an earthen voyder (made of clay)

Comes Death, & takes the table clean away.