José Miguel João de Portugal e Castro, Marquis of Valença and Count of Vimioso (1706-1775):
‘De repentina morte’José Miguel J. de Portugal, Epigrammatum liber unus (Lisbon: ex praelo Michælis Rodrigues, 1732), p. 35. My translation.
De brevitate queri vitae nos saepe solemus;
Cum mage sit nobis mors metuenda brevia
'On sudden death'
We often complain of how life passes by so swiftly, when a swift death ought to be more worrisome to us.