man fear death as child fear to go in the dark and as that natural fear in  child be increase with tale so be the other certain the contemplation of death  as the wage of sin and passage to another world be holy and religious but the  fear of it as a tribute due unto nature be weak yet in religious meditation  there be sometime mixture of vanity and of superstition you shall read in some  of the friar book of mortification that a man shall think with himself what  the pain be if he have but his finger end press or torture and thereby imagine  what the pain of death be when the whole body be corrupt and dissolve when  many time death pass with less pain than the torture of a limb for the most  vital part be not the quick of sense and by he that speak only as a  philosopher and natural man it be well say pompa death to greater extent  terret how mors self groan and convulsion and a discolour face and friend weep  and black and obsequy and the like show death terrible it be worthy the  observe that there be no passion in the mind of man so weak but it mate and  master the fear of death and therefore death be no such terrible enemy when a  man have so many attendant about he that can win the combat of he revenge  triumph over death love slight it honour aspire to it grief fly to it fear  preoccupates it nay we read after Otho the emperor have slay himself pity  which be the tender of affection provoke many to die out of mere compassion to  their sovereign and as the true sort of follower nay Seneca add niceness and  satiety to consider thoroughly Interrog. by the same route to make  become void  velle non so much fortis or miser say now too full of disgust  to be able a man will die though he be neither valiant nor miserable only upon  a weariness to do the same thing so oft over and over it be no less worthy to  observe how little alteration in good spirit the approach of death make for  they appear to be the same man till the last instant Augustus Caesar die in a  compliment the celebrated historian marriage our men  memor vive et vale  Tiberius in dissimulation as Tacitus say of he Jam taken in the Tiber vires et  corpus non dissimulation dissembling desereba Vespasian in a jest sit upon the  stool ut to clean Deus  of facio Galba with a sentence Feri si ex re sit  poplar tree Romani hold forth his neck Septimius Severus in dispatch to be at  si quid I it remains to agendum and the like certain the Stoic bestow too much  cost upon death and by their great preparation make it appear more fearful  better say he who that which divides vitae extremum inter service to put down  nature it be as natural to die as to be bear and to a little infant perhaps  the one be as painful as the other he that die in a earnest pursuit be like  one that be wound in hot blood who for the time scarce feel the hurt and  therefore a mind fix and bend upon somewhat that be good do avert the dolour  of death but above all believe it the sweet canticle is nunc  to send different ways when a man have obtain worthy end and expectation death  have this also that it open the gate to good fame and extinguish  envy.--Extinctus to love idem