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To the Memory of my deare Friend
MRS. PENELOPE SYMCOTS, who dyed of
a violent Feaver in the Flower of her
Age, at Hatton House in Holborne, London. Jul. 31. 1651. |
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To the Memory of my deare Friend MRS. PENELOPE SYMCOTS, who dyed of a violent Feaver in the Flower of her Age, at Hatton House in Holborne, London. Jul. 31. 1651.
Farwell vaine Life! for Shee, whose vertues ledMy wandering steps, (they say) is dead.
Wellcome deare Death! for Shee, that made life sweet,
Lies here a carcase in a Sheet.
That Flesh that would have more than halfe refin'd
Our Soules, is vanish'd hence like Wind:
That Soule, the Jewell of that lovely Shrine,
Compos'd o' th' purest Oare i' th' Mine,
Is now transported to a Throne of Blisse,
So great, wee can't define what 't is.
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