...instant; makes them cry, complain, and repent, yea, even to hate their forepast happiness. He takes the account of the rich, and proves him a beggar, a naked beggar, which hath interest in nothing but the gravel that fills his mouth. He holds a glass before the eye of the most beautiful, and makes them...

...which hath interest in nothing but the gravel that fills his mouth. He holds a glass before the eye of the most beautiful, and makes them see therein...deformity and rottenness and they acknowledge it. (History, p. 396) In early December 1623, five years after Ralegh was finally executed, John Donne...

...Sir Walter Raleigh exults "It is therefore Death alone that can suddenly make man to know himself. He holds a glass before the eyes of the most beautiful...them see therein their deformity and rottenness and acknowledge it." This praise of death even made men gloat over the corruption that was only too evident...

...instant, makes them cry, complain, and repent, yea, even to hate their forepast happiness. He takes the account of the rich, and proves him a beggar, a naked...none could advise, thou hast persuaded; what none hath dared, thou hast done; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hast cast out of the world...

...instant; makes them cry, complain, and repent, yea, even to hate their forepassed happiness. He takes the account of the rich, and proves him a beggar, a naked...deformity and rottenness, and they acknowledge it. 62 For Raleigh, Death is the grim reaper who comes to claim those debts accumulated in Man's time on...