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 4o8 Anfie Bradji reefs Works.

One week fhe only pafl in pain and woe,

And then her forrows all at once did go;

A Babe fhe left before, fhe foar'd above,

The fifth and laft pledg of her dying love,

E're nature would, it hither did arrive,

No wonder it no longer did furvive.

So with her Children four, fhe's now a refl.

All freed from grief (I trufh) among the bleft;

She one hath left, a joy to thee and me,'^

The Heavens vouchfafe fhe may fo ever be.

Chear up, (dear Son) thy fainting bleeding heart.

In him alone, that caufed all this fmart;

What though thy ftrokes full fad & grievous be,

He knows it is the beft for thee and me.

A. B.

will, signed Feb. 20, 1688, O. S,, mentions her as one "whom I have been forced to educate and maintain at considerable charge ever since Septem- ber 1670." — Suffolk Probate Records, Lib. xi. Fol. 277-8. She afterwards married James Oliver, a physician in Cambridge. See N. E. Hist. Gen. Register, vol. viii. p. 314, and vol. ix. p. 113.
 * A daughter, Mercy, born Nov. 20, 1667. Governor Bradstreet, in his

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