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 Funi ut succedat Ferrum, & suspensa secetur;

En! Ferrum & Funis, bina venena, juvant.

Unâ mulctatam, geminâ dum morte parabant

Afficere, in vitam fit rediviva novam.

Naturæ in leges, ac Gentis jura, triumphans

Elusit Fati, Judicis atq́ꝫ, minas.

Nec Medici hoc, Sceleton faciunt, exangue cadaver.

Quod magis est, vivum cedit in Automaton.

dmire not, 'tis no newes, nere think it strange,

Twere wonder if a Woman should not change.

They have mysterious wayes, and their designes

Must be read backward still, like Hebrew lines.

See, these with Death dissemble, and can cheat

Charon himselfe to mak a faire retreat.

Well, for this trick Ile never so be led

As to beleive a Woman, though shee's dead.

hou more then Mortall, that with many lives

Hast mock't the Sexton, and the Doctors knives:

The name of Spinster thou maist justly wed,

Since there's no Halter stronger then thy Thread.

hou, thine owne Clotho, that knew'st not to feele

The darts of Death, yet woar'st no Buffe,nor Steele.

If with such Art thou canst thy Distaffe rule,

The Souldiers all to thee shall go to Schoole.