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On my dear and eve7' lionoured Mother

Mrs. Dorothy Dudley^

ivho deceafed Decemb. 27. 1643. and of her age^ 61 ;

Here lyes,

A Worthy Matron of unf potted life, A loving Mother and obedient wife, A friendly Neighbor, -pitiful to poor, Whom oft JJie fed, and clothed ivith her fore] To Servants wifely aweful^ bnt yet kind, And as tJiey did, fo they reward did find'. A true Tnfi ruder of her Family, The which file ordered with dexterity. The publick ?neetings ever did frequent. And in her Clofiet confiant hours fiie fipent', Religious in all her tuords and wayes. Preparing fill for death, till end of dayes: Of all her Children, Children, liv''d to fee, Then dying, left a bleffed memory.

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