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.)