a essay on death I have often think upon death and I find it the least of all  evil all that which be pass be as a dream and he that hope or depend upon time  come dream wake so much of our life as we have discover be already dead and  all those hour which we share even from the breast of our mother until we  return to our grand mother the earth be part of our die day whereof even this  be one and those that ucceeds be of the same nature for we die dyly and as  other have give place to we so we must in the end give way to other physician  in the name of death include all sorrow anguish disease calamity or whatsoever  can fall in the life of man either grievous or unwelcome but these thing be  familiar unto we and we suffer they every hour therefore we die daily and I be  old since I affirm it I know many wiseman that fear to die for the change be  bitter and flesh will refuse to prove it beside the expectation bring terror  and that exceed the evil but I do not believe that any man fear to be dead but  only the stroke of death and such be my hope that if heaven be please and  nature renew but my lease for year more without ask long day I shall be strong  enough to acknowledge without mourning that I be beget mortal virtue walk not  in the highway though she go per nourishing this be strength and the blood to  virtue to contemn thing that be desire and to neglect that which be fear why  shall man be in love with his setter though of gold be thou drown in security  then I say though be perfect dead for though thou move yet thy soul be bury  within thou and thy good angel either forsake his Guard or sleep there be  nothing under heaven save a true friend who can be count within the number of  movable unto which my heart do lean and this dear freedom have beget I this  peace that I mourn not for that end which must be nor spend one wish to have  one minute add to the incertain date of my year it be no mean apprehension of  Lucian who say of Menippus that in his travel through hell he know not the  king of the earth from other man but only by their loud cry and tear which be  foster in they through the remorseful memory of the good day they have see and  the fruitful have which they so unwilling leave behind they he that be well  seat look back at his portion and be loath to forsake his farm and other  either mind marriage pleasure profit or preferment desire to be excuse from  death banquet they have make a appointment with earth look at the blessing not  the hand that enlarge they forget how unclothe they come hither or with what  naked ornament they be array but be we servant of the precept give and  observer of the heathen rule memento become void  and not become benight with  this seem felicity we shall enjoy they as man prepaaed to lose and not wind up  our think upon so perish a fortune he that be not slacky strong as the servant  of pleasure how can he be find uneady to quit the veil and false visage of his  perfection the soul have shake off herflesh do then set up for her self and  contemn thing that be under show what finger have enforce her for the soul of  idiot be of the same piece with those of statesman but now and then nature be  a fault and this good guest of we take soil in a unperfect body and so be  slacken from show her wonder like a excellent musician which can utter himself  upon a defective instrument but see how I be swerve and lose my course touch  at the soul that do least hold action with death who have the sure property in  this frail act his style be the end of all flesh and the beginning of  incorruption this ruler of monument lead man for the most part out of this  world with their heal forward in token that he be contrary to life which be  obtain send man headlong into this wretched theater where be arrive their  first language be that of mourning nor in my own think can I compare man more  fit to any thing then to the Indian figtree which be ripen to his full height  be say to decline his branch down to the earth whereof she conceive again and  they become root in their own stock so man have derive his be from the earth  first life the life of a ree draw his nourishment as a plant and make ripe for  death he tend downward and be sow again in his Mothe the earth where he perish  not but expect a quicken so we see death exempt not a man from be but only  present a alteration yet there be some man I think that stand otherwise  persuade death find not a worse friend then a alderman to who door I never  know he welcome but he be a importunate guest and will not be say nay and  though they themselves shall affirm that they be not within yet the answer  will not be take and that which heighten their fear be that they know they be  in danger to forfeit their flesh but be not wise of the payment day which  sickly uncertainty be the occasion that for the most part they step out of  this world unfurnish for their general account and be all unprovide desire yet  to hold their gravity prepare their soul to answer in scarlet thus I gather  that death be unagreeable to most citizen because they common die intestate  this be a rule that when their will be make they think themselves near a grave  then before now they out of the wisdom of thousand think to scr destiny from  whih there be no appeal by not make a will or to live long by protestation of  their unwillingness to die they be for the most part well make in this world  account their treasure by legion as man do devil their fortune look towards  they and they be Willing to anchor at it and desire if it be possible to put  the evil day far off from they and to adjourn their ungrateful and kill period  no these be not the man which have bespeak death or who look be assure to  entertain a think of he death arrive gracious only to such as sit in darkness  Oly heavy burden with grief and iron to the poor Christian that sit bind in  the galley to dispairfull widow pensive prisoner and depose king to they who  fortune run back and who spirit mutiny unto such death be a redeemer and the  grave a place for retiredness and rest these wait upon the shore of death and  waste unto he to draw near wish above all other oh see his star that they may  be lead to his place woo the remorseless sister to wind down the watch of  their life and to break they off before the hour but death be a doleful  messenger to a usurer and fate untimely cut their thread for it be never  mention by he but when rumour of war and civil tumult put he in mind thereof  and when many hand be arm and the peace of a city in disorder and the foot of  the common soldier sound a alarm on his stair then perhaps such a one break in  think of his money abroad and curse the monument of coin which be in his house  can be content to think of death and be hasty of perdiion will perhaps hang  himself least his threat shall be cut provide that he may do it in his study  surround with wealth to which his eye send a faint and languish salute even  upon the turn off remember always that he have time and liberty by write to  depute himself as his own heir for that be a great peace to his end and  reconcile he wonder upon the point herein we all dally with our self and be  without proof of necessity I be not of those that dare promise to pine away my  self in vain glory and I hold such to be but seat boldness and that dare  commit it to be vain for my part I think nture shall do I great wrong if I  shall be so long in die as I be in be bear to speak truth no man know the lift  of his own paience nor can divine how able he shall be in his suffer till the  storm come the perfect virtue be try in action but I will out of a care to do  the best business well ever keep a guard stand upon keep faith and a good  conscience and if wish may find place I will die together and not my mind  often and my body once than be I will prepare for the messenger of death  sickness and affliction and not wait long or be attempt by the violence of  pain herein I do not profess my self a Stoic to hold grief no evil but opinion  and a hing indifferen but I consent with Caesar and that the sudden passage be  easy and there be nothing more awaken our reve and readiness to die then the  quiet concence strghened with opinion that we shall be well speak of upon  earth by those that be just and of the family of virtue the opposite whereof  be a fury to man and make even life unsweet therefore what be more heavy then  evil fame deserve or likewise who can see worse day then he that yet live do  follow at the funeral of his own reputation I have lie up many hope that I be  privilege from that kind of mourning and can wish that like peace to all those  with who I wage love I may say much of the commodity that death can sell a man  but brief death be a friend of we and he that be ready to entertain he be not  at home while I be my ambition be not to before slow the tie I have but so to  make my interest of it as I may account for it I will wish nothing but what  may better my day nor desire any great place then the front of good opinion I  make not love to the continuance of day but to the goodness of they nor wish  to die but refer my self to my hour which the great dispenser of all thing  have appoint I yet as I be frail and suffer for the first fault be it give I  to choose I shall not be earnest to see the evening of my age that extremity  of it self be a disease and a mere return into infancy so that if perpetuity  of life may be give I I shall think what the Greek poet say such a age be a  mortal evil and since I must needs be dead I require it may not be do before I  enemy that I be not stripe before Ibe cold but before my friend the night be  even now but that name be lose it be not now late but early I eye begin to  discharge their watch and compound with this fleshly weak smoothness for a  time of perpetual rest and I shall present be as happy for a few hour as I  have die the t hour I be bear