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11 comfort of a married life, the one at five years of age, and the  at three, the father by what means  uncertain, felt into a consumption, which encreasing upon him, rendered him wondrous weak, insomuch that he was given over by the physicians, the grief of parting with whom made so deep an impression on the tender spirits of Eugenia, that she refused to be comforted either by her husband, who strove what in him lay to hush her sorrow nor by her own relations; no rules of divinity or morality had at that time force sufficient to work a moderation, all arguments being spent in vain seeing she must lose so good a husband, whom she loved so dear; so that through outward weeping and inward anguish of spirit, at last cast herself into a violent fever, the prevalency of which  she was no ways able to resist; and therefore herself to bed with her  husband, where they lay condoling each other, either being more sensibly afflicted for each other’s pain, than that each particular felt.