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 ^6 Anne Bradfti'cet'' s Works.

My weaknes, thou do'ft know full well,

Of Body and of mind. I, in this world, no comfort haue,

But what from Thee I lind.

Tho : children thou haft given me,

And freinds I haue alio: Yet, if I fee Thee not thro: them,

They are no Joy, but woe.

O fhine vpon me, blefled Lord, Ev'n for my Saviour's fake;

In Thee Alone is more then All, And there content Til take.

O hear me. Lord, in this Reqveft, As thov before ha'ft done:

Bring back my hufband, I befeech. As thov didft once my Sonne.

So fhall I celebrate thy Praife, Ev'n while my Dayes fhall laft;

And talk to my Beloued one Of all thy Goodnes pad.

��Winthrop uses the same expression in a letter to his son (" Life and Let- ters," p. 250).

" But such as will roll thoir ways upon the Lord, do find him always as good as his word."

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