"Our life is but a vapour. [ it is] phantastical, or a mere appearance; and this but for a little while neither; the very dream, the phantasm disappears in a small time, like the shadow that departeth, or like a tale that is told, or as a dream when one waketh . . . ."
Jeremy Taylor (1613--1667), "The Rules and Exercises of Holy Dying."
1st ed 1651
(1670, 2-3, 28), see Adrian Tinniswood, The Verneys, 2007)
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