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An elegy on the much-to-be-deplored death of that never-to-be-forgotten person, the Reverend Nathanael Collins;…
An elegy on the much-to-be-deplored death of that never-to-be-forgotten person, the Reverend Nathanael Collins; who after he had been many years a faithful pastor to the church at Middletown of Connecticut in New-England, about the forty third year of his age expired; on 28th. 10. month 1684. : [Three lines of quotations in Latin]An elegy on the much-to-be-deplored death of that never-to-be-forgotten person, the Reverend Nathanael Collins; who after he had been many years a faithful pastor to the church at Middletown of Connecticut in New-England, about the forty third year of his age expired; on 28th. 10. moneth 1684. : [Three lines of quotations in Latin]
printed by Richard Pierce for Obadiah Gill, 1685
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
To Meat a *Daniel; and a Rechabite¶ To Drink; like a John Baptist †in his Raiment; His sleep, like David, {inverted †}robbing in the Night; Still putting Nature off with scanty payment.
To Meat a *Daniel; and a Rechabite¶ To Drink; like a John Baptist †in his Rayment; His sleep, like David, {inverted †}robbing in the Night; Still putting Nature off with scanty payment.
- *Dan. 1. 12.
- ¶Jer. 35. 6.
- †Mat. 3. 4.
- {inverted †}Psa. 119. 62.
Abstemious in all things at such a rate, Some (like Eliza