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So pious, as she had no time to spare

For human thoughts, but was confin'd to pray'r.
Yet in fuch charities fhe pafs'd the day,

'Twas wond'rous how the found an hour to pray.
A foul fo calm, it knew not ebbs or flows,
Which paffion cou'd but curl, not discompose.
A female softness, with a manly mind:
A daughter duteous, and a fifter kind:

In fickness patient, and in death resign'd,

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Mrs. MARGARET PASTON,

Of BURNINGHAM in
in NORFOLK.

O fair, fo young, fo innocent, so sweet,

So fair

So ripe

ripe a judgment, and fo rare a wit, Require at least an age in one to meet.

In her they met; but long they could not stay,
'Twas gold too fine to mix without allay.
Heaven's image was in her fo well expreft,
Her very fight upbraided all the rest;
Too justly ravish'd from an age like this,
Now she is gone, the world is of a piece.

ON THE

MONUMENT

O F THE

MARQUIS of WINCHESTER,

HE

E, who in impious times undaunted stood,
And midst rebellion durft be just and good;
Whose arms afferted, and whose sufferings more
Confirm'd the cause for which he fought before;
Refts here, rewarded by an heav'nly prince;
For what his earthly could not recompence.
Pray reader that such times no more appear:
Or, if they happen, learn true honor here.
Ask of this age's faith and loyalty,

Which, to preferve them, heav'n confin'd in thee,
Few subjects could a king like thine deserve;
And fewer, fuch a king, fo well could ferve.
Bleft king, bleft subject, whose exalted state
By fufferings rofe, and gave the law to fate,
Such fouls are rare, but mighty patterns giv'n
To earth, and meant for ornaments to heav'n,

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APPY and free, fecurely bleft;
No beauty could disturb my

HAPPY and free,

My amorous heart was in defpair,

To find a new victorious fair.

II.

Till you descending on our plains,

reft;

With foreign force renew my chains;
Where now you rule without controul
The mighty fovereign of my foul.

III.

Your smiles have more of conqu’ring charms,

Than all your native country arms:

Their troops we can expel with ease,

Who vanquish only when we please.

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