Bradshaws ultimum vale, being the last words that are ever intended to be spoke…

Now this Time being made a Demon or Semigod, even as our fore Fathers deified Wine, and called it Bacchus, by reason of its great power over Mortals, will not yet leave his Thieving, but steals our Years, our Days, Months, and Minutes, nay our very Lives from us: And more than this, if the Sexton be not too nimble for him, makes no Conscience to steal our winding Sheets from us, as we lye helpless and succourless in our Graves. In Law Offices, the Rats and He feed together upon old Parchments; so that the Lawyers are fain to make their Deeds, and Leases, of no use after so many years, lest he should eat away the Evidences of Mens Inheritances. Ecce venio ut Fur, saith the Dial of Cannon Street Church. Surely he was a Wise Man, that made that Dial, and understood Latin; for never was a better Character given of Time than this. But let him go like a Thief as he is, and let us see what we have next to insist upon.

Now this Time being made a Demon or Semigod, even as our fore Fathers deifyed Wine, and call'd it Bacchus, by reason of its great power over Mortals, will not yet leave his Theiving, but steals our Years, our Days, Months, and Minutes, nay our very Lives from us: And more than this, if the Sexton be not too nimble for him, makes no Conscience to steal our winding Sheets from us, as we lye helplesse and succourlesse in our Graves. In Law Offices, the Rats and He feed together upon old Parchments; so that the Lawyers are fain to make their Deeds, and Leases, of no use after so many years, lest he should eat away the Evidences of Mens Inheritances. Ecce venio ut Fur, saith the Dyal of Cannon Street Church. Surely he was a VVise Man, that made that Dyall, and understood Latin; for never was a better Character given of Time than this. But let him go like a Thief as he is, and let us see what we have next to insist upon.

You find by what we have said already, a true explanation of the Letters, and Hieroglyphic of this Text. Now the Letters and Hieroglyphic being put together, do immediately spawn or procreate this sense or meaning, We Must Dye all. Here we are to note the action, and universality of the action; The action is Dying, the universality of the action, We Must Dye all. Well then, We Must Dye all; But what? must we Dye all after one fashion? In other things there is variety; as of Women, there are the Black, the Brown, the Fair. Of Drink there is variety, as Ale, Beer, Cider, Sack, Claret, &c. There are also several sorts of Meat, as Flesh, Fowl; And of these also, there are various kinds, whereby the Palate need not to be nauseated always with one and the same thing. And is there but one way of Dying? Beloved ye need not fear: There are as many ways of Dying, as of Eating and Drinking. Some Men Dye for Love, as you may read in the first Book of Claudian Gruget, or the Chronicles of Queen Marget. Beloved, I shall read unto you the Text it self; where you shall find the Story of a