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The Project Gutenberg EBook of A Discourse of Life and Death, by Mornay; and Antonius by Garnier, by Philippe de Mornay and Robert Garnier This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: A Discourse of Life and Death, by Mornay; and Antonius by Garnier Author: Philippe de Mornay Robert Garnier Translator: Mary Sidney Herbert Release Date: June 10, 2007 [EBook #21789] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A DISCOURSE OF LIFE *** Produced by Louise Hope, David Starner and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net [Transcriber's Note: This text is intended for users whose text readers cannot use the "real" (unicode/utf-8) version of the file. Characters that could not be fully displayed have been "unpacked" and shown in brackets: [em], [en], [om], [on], [un] vowel with overline (for following nasal) The "oe" character is shown as two separate letters.] A Discourse of Life _and Death_. Written in French by _Ph. Mornay_. Antonius, _A Tragoedie written also in French_ by _Ro. Garnier_. Both done in English by the _Countesse of Pembroke_. [Illustration: publisher's device] AT LONDON, Printed for _William Ponsonby_. 1592. [Illustration: Emblem] [Decoration] A Discourse of Life and Death, Written in French by _Ph. Mornay_. _Sieur du Plessis Marly_. It seemes to mee strange, and a thing much to be marueiled, that the laborer to repose himselfe hasteneth as it were the course of the Sunne: that the Mariner rowes with all force to attayne the porte, and with a ioyfull crye salutes the descryed land: that the traueiler is neuer quiet nor content till he be at the ende of his voyage: and that wee in the meane while tied in this world to a perpetuall taske, tossed with continuall tempest, tyred with a rough and combersome way, cannot yet see the ende of our labour but with griefe, nor behold our porte but with teares, nor approch our home and quiet abode but with horrour and trembling. This life is but a _Penelopes_ web, wherein we are alwayes doing and vndoing: a sea open to all windes, which sometime
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