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O age! Here’s something new that I have filled
With old, like fine oil in a flask.
A kind of verse to please men’s mouths and minds
I have invented for exploring love.
I provide a model of the…
Contributor:
Judah Sommo
Places:
Mantua, Duchy of Mantua (Mantova, Italy)
Date:
16th Century
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Why, death, do you tarry so?
Why does your chariot come so slow?
Old age has prepared for me
Every illness and complaint.
What good are my hundred years?
If such pain I undergo—
Why, death…
Contributor:
Jacob Frances
Places:
Mantua, Duchy of Mantua (Mantova, Italy)
Date:
17th Century