“Even such is man, whose glory lendsHis life a blaze or two, and ends.”Francis Quarles Hos ego versiculos (1629).
“This house is to be let for life or years;Her rent is sorrow, and her income tears.Cupid, 't has long stood void; her bills make known,She must be dearly let, or let alone.”Francis Quarles Book I, no. 10, Epigram 10. Emblems (1635)
“And what's a life? A weary pilgrimage,Whose glory in one day doth fill the stageWith childhood, manhood, and decrepit age.”Francis Quarles What Is Life.