A Warning for all Worldlings to learn to Die.  
The tune●s, The Ladies Fall.  
 


GOod people all repent with speed▪  
high time it is to pray,  
Tempt not the just and righteous God  
with vain and long delay:  
And while it is the day indeed,  
for mercy call and cry,  
O would that men would bear in mind,  
that one day they must die.   

Thyself in thy security,  
why dost thou flatter so?  
Deferring thy repenting days,  
till age doth bring thee low;  
And further, till thy Sickest hour  
that e'er thou hast to lie,  
O would that men, etc.   

O dust and ashes, dost thou think  
the Glorious God of might,  
will take in worth these wicked things  
and wait on thy delight?  
O mark how sore and suddenly,  
his Wrath on him will lie;  
O would that men, etc.   

For what is he upon the earth,  
that can himself secure,  
Or say that for an hours space  
my life it can endure:  
No man on earth can warrant life,  
the twinkling of an eye,  
O would that men, etc.   

And after death thyself assure,  
repentance comes too late,  
Not all the wealth within the world,  
that can thy pains abate;  
For as a tree doth take his fall,  
even so the same doth lie:  
Therefore in chiefest of thy health,  
prepare thyself to die.   

And se●st not thou in Sickness oft,  
men's memories decay,  
Who many times do Rove and Rage,  
when they have need to pray,  
Whose hearts are ●ent to ●an & curse,  
till death doth close their eye:  
Therefore, etc.    

The second Part to the same Tune:  

ANd if thou hast thy memory  
and understanding right,  
And of thy speech the perfect use,  
and brightness of thy sight:  
Yet may the Lord withhold his grace  
and take thy Faith from thee,  
That to repent thy folly past,  
thou shalt not able be.   

But yet admit, our gracious God,  
in mercy for to deal,  
That in thy Sickness he ●ouch-safe,  
his mercy to reveal;  
Yet thou shalt have a thousand griefs,  
to wring thy mind awry;  
Therefore, etc.   

For thou shalt have thy body then  
disquieted with pain,  
Thy head and heart will vexed be,  
and so will every vain:  
The pangs of death will fear thee sore  
whose force thou canst n of fly;  
Therefore, etc.   

The love of life will tempt thee much  
whose favour was so sweet,  
And thou wilt muse of many things  
that for thy health is meet:  
To think thou must forgo thy Goods  
will nip thy heart full nigh:  
Therefore, etc.   

To see thy Friends and Neighbours all  
thy dying hour abide:  
To see thy Wife and Children small  
cry out on every side;  
To think thou must for go them all  
will nip thy heart full nigh;  
Therefore, etc.   

Besides, to think upon thy Sins,  
will much molest thy mind,  
The fresh remembrance of the same  
thou shalt most bitter find;  
Despair & dread will drown thy heart,  
for living so awry:  
Therefore, etc.   

And thy accusing conscience than  
will witness to thy woe,  
How wickedly upon the earth  
thou didst thy days bestow:  
And this within thy pensive breast  
most grievously will lie:  
Therefore, etc.   

Then will the Devil most busy be  
God's Justice to declare,  
And of his mercy he will still  
procure thee to despair:  
Persuading thee thy grievous Sins  
do for Hell ever cry:  
Therefore, etc.   

Here mayst thou see, (oh, wretched man)  
how hard a time thou ha●t  
Prepared to repent thy Sins,  
at this thy latter cast;  
Therefore put not repentance back  
do not God's Grace deny;  
But in the chiefest of ●hy health, etc.   

Let every one pray that the Lord  
may bless our King and Queen,  
And grant that they in all their days  
may joyfully be seen:  
And after death that they may live  
in ●oy eternally.  
Then let all people say, Amen,  
And so Amen, say I.     

London, Printed for F. Coles, T. Vere, and J. Wright.