Certaine Serious Thoughts which at severall times & upon sundry Occasions have stollen themselves into Verse and now into the Publike View from the Author: Together w[i]th a Chronologicall table denoeting the names of such Princes as ruled the neighbor States and were con-temporary to our English Kings, observeing throughout ye number of yeares w[hi]ch every one of them reigned [by Christopher Wyvill] |
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On the death of our Vertuous and deare friend Mistris
Dorothy Warwick at Marsk, Aug. 6th 1644.
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On the death of our Vertuous and deare friend Mistris Dorothy Warwick at Marsk, Aug. 6th 1644.
If only light griefs find a tongue; and thoseThat are extream, cannot themselves disclose
Immur'd by stupid silence, surely then
Nothing but flowing teares must from my pen
Be-blur this paper: 'tis beyond the art,
Of language to expresse the smallest part
Of our deep sorrowes for her losse, whose age
Scarce to the Summer of her Pilgrimage
Attayned had; yet so ripe fruit, but few
After the Autumne of their yeares can shew.
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Then one step forward to that place of blisse;
Where now her faith is crowned, and we find
Her sweet and pretious memory behinde.
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