Zusammenfassung der Ressource
All whom war, dearth, age, agues,
tyrannies, Despair, law, chance, hath
slain, […]
- Here the speaker takes another approach to defining "All" souls.
- He broadens the category to include every kind of death – all the people who were "slain" or killed by various culprits.
- Let's bring out those usual suspects and take 'em one by one: "war" refers to people who died in battle; "dearth"
indicates people who died from hunger; "age" makes references to those who died from natural causes; "agues"
refers to people who died from sickness; "tyrannies" indicates people who died at the hands of oppressive rulers;
"despair" refers to those who killed themselves; "law" means people who were put to death lawfully, and then there's
"chance," people who died some accidental death.
- This group would seem to include both good and bad people. For example, good people die from sickness just like
the bad.
- (We encourage you to tuck "ague" into your memory storage attic: it's a cool-sounding word for "sickness." Next
time you go to the doctor with a cold, tell her you have an ague.)