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Quiz

Andrew’s Quiz

by Andrew Dodsworth

Who wrote the following deathly passages?

1. The World a Hunting is,
The prey, poore Man, the Nimrod fierce is Death,
His speedy Grey-hounds are
Lust, Sicknesse, Envie, Care,
Strife that ne’er falls amisse,
With all those ills which haunt us while we breathe.
Now if (by chance) wee flie
Of these the eager Chase,
Old Age with stealing Pace
Casts up his Nets, and there wee panting die.

2. Thy Beauty shall no more be found,
Nor, in thy marble Vault, shall sound
My ecchoing Song: then Worms shall try
That long preserv’d Virginity:
And your quaint Honour turn to dust;
And into ashes all my Lust.

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