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Book 7, Epigram 47: De Hominis Ortu & Sepultura. 

By Thomas Bastard
Nature which headlong into life doth throw us,
With our feet forward to our grave doth bring us,
What is less ours, than this our borrowed breath,
We stumble into life, we go to death.


Source: Chrestoleros: Seven Books of Epigrams written by T. B. (1598)
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Book 7, Epigram 47: De Hominis Ortu & Sepultura. 

By Thomas Bastard
About this Poet

Elizabethan epigrammatist and clergyman Thomas Bastard was born in Blandford, Dorchester, and educated at Winchester College and New College, Oxford, where he earned a BA and MA and was made a perpetual Fellow in 1588. The fellowship was retracted on charges of libel in 1601,...

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