THE ESCUTCHEON OF DEATH.
Memorare nouissima, & in æternum non peccabis.
Eccle. vii.
Si tu ueulx uiure sans peché
Voy ceste imaige a tous propos,
Et point ne seras empesché,
Quand tu t'en iras a repos.
The supporters represent Holbein (the artist who engraved this set of drawings about the different aspects of Death) and his wife.
There is no such thing as death.
In nature nothing does.
From each sad remnant of decay.
Some forms of life arise.
-- Charles Mackay