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Astraea's Teares

An Elegie Vpon the death of that Reverend, Learned and Honest Judge, Sir Richard Hutton Knight; Lately one of his Majesties Iustices in his Highnesse Court of Common Plees at Westminster [by Richard Brathwait]

Brathwait, Richard (1588?-1673)

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To my worthily-accomplished and most endeared Cosin, SIR Richard Hutton Knight.

To my truly-esteemed and highly-respected Cosin,

Astræa's Teares.

TO THE PIOUS MEMORY of Sir Richard Hutton Knight;

TO THE LIVING MEMORIE of that Reverend, learned and honest Judge, Sir Richard Hutton KNIGHT:

Astræa's Anthem.

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UPON THE DEATH OF another Reverend, learned, and judicious Patriot of our Nation;

To the unperioded memory of the Honourable, Richard Mollineux Viscount Mollineux of Mariburg.

To the pious memory of that judicious Patriot of his Countrey, Sir Christopher Dalston KNIGHT.

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To my truly-esteemed and highly-respected Cosin,

Thomas Hutton Esquire; A Member of the Honourable Society of Grais-Inne.

To you, though younger, yet the same in blood,
Send I this patterne of parentall good:
Whose imitation shall you more advance
Then Fortunes portion, or Inheritance.
For those to Moales of worthlesse mindes are given,
Where these Lines chalke you out your way to heaven:

Whose lineall-lustre if you doe not smother,
Makes you Corrivall with your Elder Brother;
Whom as I live I love; and in him you:
“This shall my Muse in richest raptures shew.
While Memory o're your dead Father reares
A Shrine bedewed with Astræas Teares.