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476 who was acquainted with Madame de Liancour, has added her life to it, and some rules for her own conduct, written by herself.

We will finish this article by a trait of her generosity. A servant who had robbed her, and afterwards in anger at being dismissed, had attempted to set fire to the house, being fallen into sickness and poverty, she sent him every assistance necessary without his knowing the hand it came from, till she considered that perhaps this knowledge might abate the hate he had conceived against her, and make him repent his fault. F. C.

married to Thomas, earl of Lincoln, about the latter end of the reign of queen Elizabeth, by whom she had seven sons and nine daughters: she survived him many years, and in the year 1628 published a small but valuable tract, entitled. The Countess of Lincolne's Nursery. It is addressed to her daughter-in-law, Bridget, countess of Lincoln, and is an excellent proof of her good sense, being, as a judicious writer observes, a well written piece, full of fine arguments, and capable of convincing any one, that is capable of conviction, of the necessity and advantages of mothers nursing their own children. By her ladyship's speaking of it as the first work of hers ever printed, one would imagine she had written more, but nothing of this kind has come to our knowledge. Female Worthies.

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