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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.
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.
- ‖A Bird sam'd for its regard to its Dam.
Farewell, thou world of *Dirt; we meekly wait But for a ‖Call too. This deplored: Straight His Brethren not as a †Jehoiakim But as a {inverted †}Jonathan, bemoaned him, With this, We live to see the Joseph die, Whom we thought born for our Adversity!
Farewel, thou world of *Dirt; we meekly wait But for a ‖Call too. This deplored: Straight His Brethren not as a †Jehoiakim But as a {inverted †}