Sentiment. 1769.
18th Century Thomas Chatterton EnglishSENTIMENT.
SINCE we can die but once, what matters it, If rope or garter, poison, pistol, sword, Slow-wasting sickness or the sudden burst Of valve arterial in the noble parts, Curtail the miseries of human life? Tho' varied is the Cause, the Effect's the same; All to one common Dissolution tends.