1982. Francis Bacon. 1561-1626. John Bartlett, comp. 1919. Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.

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John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.


NUMBER:	1982
AUTHOR:	Francis Bacon (1561–1626)
QUOTATION:	What then remains but that we still should cry For being born, and, being born, to die? 1
ATTRIBUTION:	The World.

Note 1.
This line frequently occurs in almost exactly the same shape among the minor poems of the time: “Not to be born, or, being born, to die.”—William Drummond: Poems, p. 44. Bishop King: Poems, etc. (1657), p. 145. [back]

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