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Emblems of Mortality

by Hans Holbein

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The Emperor

Set thine House in Order; for thou shalt die, and not live.

Isaiah xxxviii. 1.

There shalt thou die, and there the Chariots of thy Glory shall be the Shame of thy Lord’s House.

Isaiah xxii. 18.

Dispose thy Kingdom’s great Concerns
  Intrusted to thy Care,
So that to pass to other Worlds
  Thou quickly may’st prepare.

For when the Time shall come that thou
  Shalt quit this mortal Throne,
Thy utmost Glory then shall be
  A broken Car alone.

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