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To the Memory, of the Incomparable Sir Andrew Ramsay of Abbots-Hall

Provost of Edinburgh, Counseller to His Majesty, Lord of the Session, &c. Who departed this Life, January 17. 1688. A funeral elegie [by Ninian Paterson]

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O anima emigra, Christo moriente quid horres?
Vivam seu Moriar, Sanguine vivo Dei.
Transitus è vivis, Vitæ melioris Origo est,
Aut potius Vitæ mors ea Principium.