The slender debt to Nature's quickly paid,
Discharged, perchance, with greater ease than made.


Book II, no. 13. Compare: "To die is a debt we must all of us discharge", Euripides, Alcestis, line 418. - Emblems (1635)

Francis Quarles Quotes

The slender debt to Nature's quickly paid, Discharged, perchance, with greater ease than made.

The slender debt to Nature's quickly paid, Discharged, perchance, with greater ease than made.

The slender debt to Nature's quickly paid, Discharged, perchance, with greater ease than made.

The slender debt to Nature's quickly paid, Discharged, perchance, with greater ease than made.