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���A Funeral Elogy, [^52]

upon that Pattern and Patron of Virtue, the truely pious, peerlefs & matchlefs Gentlewoman

Mrs. Anne Braclftreet^

right Panaretes,^'

Mirror of Her Age, Glory of her Sex, ivhofe

Heaven-born- Soul leaving its earthly Shrine,

chofe its native home, and was taken to its

Reft, upon i6th. Sept. 1672.

\ Sk not why hearts turn Magazines of paffions, ■^ ^ And why that grief is clad in fev'ral fafhions ; Why She on progrefs goes, and doth not borrow The fmalleft refpite from th' extreams of forrow, Her mifery is got to fuch an height, As makes the earth groan to fupport its weight, Such ftorms of woe, fo ftrongly have befet her. She hath no place for worfe, nor hope for better; Her comfort is, if any for her be. That none can fhew more caufe of grief then fhe.

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 * Gr. ■KaviipETog, all-virtuous.

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