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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.
Amidst these hideous Frights perplexed, I mourn With Incoherent Throbs you see. Now tell me Whether it be not just that thus forlorn I here bewail this that has late befell me.
Amidst these hidcons Frights perplext, I mourn With Incoharent Throbs you see. Now tell me Whether it be not just that thus forlorn I here bewail this that has late befel me.
SHE said; Her heavy words were hardly out When, as one planet-struck, a doleful shout Of the surviving COLLINSes detained Me from Replies to what had been complained. To fill the Stage there seemed to throng a crowd Of his Relations to us. First aloud His Aged Parents with drenched Handkerchiefs Saw and had cause thus to proclaim their Griefs:
SHE said; Her heavy words were hardly out When, as one planet-struck, a doleful shout Of the surviving COLLINSes detaind Me from Replies to what had been complain'd. To fill the Stage there seem'd to throng a croud Of his Relations to us. First aloud His Aged Parents with drench'd Hankercheifs Saw and had cause thus to proclaim their Griess:
A Son, our Staff and ‖Stork; (said they) A Son, Our Benjamin, Alas, must he be gone To his Long-Home before us? Heaven more May now be Heaven to us than before.
A Son, our Staff and ‖Stork; (said they) A Son, Our Benjamin, Alas, must he be gone To his Long-Home before us? Heaven more May now be Heavan to us than before.