Pretiosa... mors....

Pretiosa ... mors ...

Subsequitur tua mors: privari lumine Syllam, Numina Parcarum jam fera precipiunt Precipiunt fera jam Parcarum numina Syllam Lumine privari: mors tua subsequitur.

Quod pro Fide Mors fugienda non est, written in the Tower 1534.

[450] "sapiens sibique imperiosus, Quem neque pauperis, neque mors, neque vincula terrent, Responsare cupidinibus, contemnere honores Fortis, et in seipso totus teres atque rotundus.

Is not he mad that draws lines with Archimedes, whilst his house is ransacked, and his city besieged, when the whole world is in combustion, or we whilst our souls are in danger, (mors sequitur, vita fugit) to spend our time in toys, idle questions, and things of no worth?

What shall I do? "Sed totum hoc studium luctu fraterna mihi mors Abstulit, hei misero frater adempte mihi?" "My brother's death my study hath undone, Woe's me, alas my brother he is gone.

Beata mors quae ad beatam vitam aditum aperit, 'tis a blessed hour that leads us to a blessed life, and blessed are they that die in the Lord.

ecce mors supra caput est, et supremum illud tribunal, ubi et dicta et facta nostra examinanda sunt: Sapiamus!

Consortes tumuli habet Rodolphum, patrem, strenuum fortemque virum, et Henricum, filium unicum, quem spei parentum mors inopiua decennem proripuit.

Tale hominum genus est, infirmum, triste, misellum, Quod mors in cineres solvit, et abdit humo.

SUNSET AT INTERLAKEN UNDER THE STARS CORSICA TO THE VENUS OF MELOS MORS

The following Sepulchral Enigma against Pride, is engraved on a stone, in the Cathedral Church of Hamburgh: "O, Mors, cur, Deus, negat, vitam, be, se, bis, nos, his, nam." CANON.

A careful comparison with the original shows the wonderful fidelity of this translation: "MORS IABROCHII" Coesper[018] erat: tunc lubriciles[019] ultravia circum Urgebant gyros gimbiculosque tophi; Moestenui visae borogovides ire meatu; Et profugi gemitus exgrabuêre rathae.

'Mors et fugacem persequitur virum.'

And by him that spake only as a philosopher and natural man, it was well said, Pompa mortis magis terret quam mors ipsa.[104] Groans and convulsions, and a discolored face, and friends weeping, and blacks and obsequies, and the like, show death terrible.

MONTHERLANT, HENRY DE. Mors et vita.

MONTHERLANT, HENRY DE. Mors et vita.

3. "Pallida mors aequo pulsat pede pauperum tabernas Regumque turres.

[Footnote: Les mors et les selles à la genette avoient été adoptés en France, et jusqu'au

Le mors à la genette étoit celui qui avoit sa gourmette d'une seule pièce et de la forme d'un grand anneau, mis et arrêté au haut de la liberté de la langue.]

'Pallida mors aequo pulsat pede pauperum tabernas Regumque turres, O beate Sexti, Vitæ summa brevis spem nos vetat inchoare longam.

Hanc mihi expetivi, contigit: conveniunt mores: valeant Qui inter nos dissidium volunt: hanc, nisi mors, Mi adimet nemo.' Ter.

Illi mors gravis incubat, Qui, notus nimis omnibus, Ignotus moritur sibi.' Seneca.

Her "Mors Imperator" created a sensation by reason of its striking qualities rather than by intrinsic artistic merit.