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The excellent woman a sermon preached at the funeral of Mrs. Elizabeth Scott ...…
The excellent woman a sermon preached at the funeral of Mrs. Elizabeth Scott ... on the 16 of Decemb. 1658 / by Tho. Case ...
London: printed for Robert Gibs, 1659
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
I have been sometimes forced to use the bridle to her, when the spur could ⟨p. 49⟩not spring some cold mettle professors of far greater abilities; the truth is, her estate was not so large as her heart; upon which account I have sometimes left her out of my addresses in many works of that nature; for which, when she hath occasionally understood it, she hath been offended, as if a great disservice had been done her.
The truth is, she had the most generous spirit, and the most liberal hand that ever I met with in her rank and quality.
1By what I have observed, I cannot believe she could give away less in a year then the fifth part of her annual Revenue; And all this without a trumpet, nay her left hand KNEW NOT what ⟨p. 50⟩her right hand did.2
1By what I have observed, I cannot believe she could give away lesse in a year then the fifth part of her annual Revenue; And all this without a trumpet, nay her left hand KNEW NOT what ⟨p. 50⟩her right hand did.2
- 1A fifth part of her estate went in Charity