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Occasions Off-spring

Or Poems upon Severall Occasions: By Mathew Stevenson
 

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To the perpetuall memory of my ever honoured Cozen Mr. E. H.

Vnder this sad marble lyes,
Natures pride; and beauties prize:

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Such, so sweet her accents were,
As would charme a Syrens eare;
Such her modest mode as shee.
Taught the turtle charitie.
Jn summe a more veruous wife,
Never sweetend husbands life.
To conclude then, all was shee,
Man could wish, or woman be,
Who lyes here, like treasure found
Not above but under ground.