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A skull. Etching.
Wellcome Collection

A skull. Etching.

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Wellcome Collection

Lettering: Youth is a budd, springs in a moment, life is a flower, dyes in an hour, time is as sand, sand quick is run, flesh is as glass, life soon doth pass.

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