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The Works of Hildebrand Jacob

... Containing Poems on Various Subjects, and Occasions; With the Fatal Constancy, a Tragedy; and Several Pieces in Prose. The Greatest Part Never Before Publish'd
  

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EPITAPH III. On Mrs. Beata F---
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EPITAPH III. On Mrs. Beata F---

Stay, Youth, and o'er this Marble weep,
Where now alone, and fast asleep
Beata lies, poor Sinner!
Alive, so tempting, so resign'd,
She ever charm'd, yet spar'd Mankind
The Time, and Pains to win her.