This text uses utf-8 (unicode) file encoding. If the apostrophes andquotation marks in this paragraph appear as garbage, you may have anincompatible browser or unavailable fonts. Make sure that the browser’s“character set” or “file encoding” is set to Unicode (UTF-8). You mayalso need to change your browser’s default font. The long-s character ſis used only on title pages.
A few typographical errors have been corrected. They have beenmarked in the text with mouse-hover popups.
The original text, printed in 1592, did not number the pagesconsecutively. Instead it labeled the recto (odd, right-hand) pages ofthe first three leaves of each signature: pages 1, 3, 5 in each group ofeight. These will appear in the right margin as A, A2, A3... Pagenumbers that were not marked are shown in brackets as [A3v], [A4],[A4v]....
[A]
A
Diſcourſe of Life
and Death.
Written in French by Ph.
Mornay.
Antonius,
A Tragœdie written also in French
by Ro. Garnier.
Both done in Engliſh by the
Counteße of Pembroke.
AT LONDON,
Printed for William Ponsonby.
1592.
[Av]
A Diſcourſe of Life and Death,
Written in French by Ph. Mornay.
Sieur du Pleßis Marly.
T seemes to mee strange,and a thing much to be marueiled, that the laborer to repose himselfehasteneth as it were the course of the Sunne: that the Mariner roweswith all force to attayne the porte, and with a ioyfull crye salutes thedescryed land: that the traueiler is neuer quiet nor content till he beat the ende of his voyage: and that wee in the meane while tied in thisworld to a perpetuall taske, tossed with continuall tempest, tyred witha rough and combersome way, cannot yet see the ende of our labour butwith griefe, nor behold our porte but with teares, nor approch our homeand quiet abode but with horrour and trembling. This life is but aPenelopes web, wherein we are alwayes doing and vndoing:a sea open to all windes, which sometime within, sometime withoutneuer cease to torment vs: a weary iorney through extreameheates, and coldes, ouer high mountaynes, steepe rockes, and theeuishdeserts. And so we terme it in weauing at this web, in rowing at thisoare, in passing[A2v]this miserable way. Yet loe when death comes to ende our worke, when shestretcheth out her armes to pull vs into the porte, when after so manydangerous passages, and lot