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On An Infant
ON AN INFANT
THAT PIED SOON AFTER THE BIRTH .-T-TMS ,. AS careful nurses in their beds do lay Their Babes , which would too long the wantons play ; So to prevent his youth ' s ensuing crimes , Nature , his nurse , laid him to bed betimes . Within this marble casket lies , A jewel rich , of highest prize , Which Nature in the world's disdain , Just shew'd , and shut it up again . M .
Epitaph.
EPITAPH .
SAME MS . WITHIN this coffin , Anew-shrunk and dead , Lies MARY ' S joy * , and she no tears ' hath shed ; Not that she wants affection to lament The burying pf so sweet an instrument Of her content , but that-h'er ppvv ' r is such , That she can raise it up , and with her touch , Make it so speakthat he which understands
, The language , must confess her active hands 1-L . ve strength , tho' not the chain of fate to break . Yet sure to raise the dead , and make it speak . ' - And if you be impatient of delay , " To know the mistery ; then bid her play . ¦ M .
Epitaph On A Noble Lady.
EPITAPH ON A NOBLE LADY .
SAME MS . —NO AUTHOR . HERE she doth lye , that reconciles the strife , How one-may-be a Virgin and a Wife ; - ¦ - AI d . yet secur'd for ever frpm the fear , ¦ ' : ' . Once to let fall a mournful Widow ' s tear . She did not marry , for by faith to him , ' _ She betrothedthat did her sin
was , purge ; And by that contract led a Virgin ' s life , ' : . That so she might become a spotless-Wife : Having here nothing else to dp at all , But , to pre pare against ' her Spouse did call ; Who- now hath summpn'd her to be his bride . She-ar . swer'd with joy , I come to abide * . With thee , O Lord , * my Husbands and my Life , thWife
Made by thy Word , and by thy Love , y j Never to be divprcd , "nor to delight , But sole in thee , to wlipm- ' my troth is plight , fl'hus she became a Wife , 'and doth remain A Virgin , and what heart / can entertain A thought , how she that ' s married to her Maker , jCan of a Widow ' s tears be made partaker . ' -. ¦ ¦ i M ? -ftrgr—^ ,-,-,- - ~ --. T— . —_ .- . ' ' " " """¦ ' ' * A Guitar .
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On An Infant
ON AN INFANT
THAT PIED SOON AFTER THE BIRTH .-T-TMS ,. AS careful nurses in their beds do lay Their Babes , which would too long the wantons play ; So to prevent his youth ' s ensuing crimes , Nature , his nurse , laid him to bed betimes . Within this marble casket lies , A jewel rich , of highest prize , Which Nature in the world's disdain , Just shew'd , and shut it up again . M .
Epitaph.
EPITAPH .
SAME MS . WITHIN this coffin , Anew-shrunk and dead , Lies MARY ' S joy * , and she no tears ' hath shed ; Not that she wants affection to lament The burying pf so sweet an instrument Of her content , but that-h'er ppvv ' r is such , That she can raise it up , and with her touch , Make it so speakthat he which understands
, The language , must confess her active hands 1-L . ve strength , tho' not the chain of fate to break . Yet sure to raise the dead , and make it speak . ' - And if you be impatient of delay , " To know the mistery ; then bid her play . ¦ M .
Epitaph On A Noble Lady.
EPITAPH ON A NOBLE LADY .
SAME MS . —NO AUTHOR . HERE she doth lye , that reconciles the strife , How one-may-be a Virgin and a Wife ; - ¦ - AI d . yet secur'd for ever frpm the fear , ¦ ' : ' . Once to let fall a mournful Widow ' s tear . She did not marry , for by faith to him , ' _ She betrothedthat did her sin
was , purge ; And by that contract led a Virgin ' s life , ' : . That so she might become a spotless-Wife : Having here nothing else to dp at all , But , to pre pare against ' her Spouse did call ; Who- now hath summpn'd her to be his bride . She-ar . swer'd with joy , I come to abide * . With thee , O Lord , * my Husbands and my Life , thWife
Made by thy Word , and by thy Love , y j Never to be divprcd , "nor to delight , But sole in thee , to wlipm- ' my troth is plight , fl'hus she became a Wife , 'and doth remain A Virgin , and what heart / can entertain A thought , how she that ' s married to her Maker , jCan of a Widow ' s tears be made partaker . ' -. ¦ ¦ i M ? -ftrgr—^ ,-,-,- - ~ --. T— . —_ .- . ' ' " " """¦ ' ' * A Guitar .