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Eureka. The virtuous woman found. A short essay on the memory of Mrs. Mary…Eureka. The vertuous woman found. A short essay on the memory of Mrs. Mary…
Eureka. The virtuous woman found. A short essay on the memory of Mrs. Mary Brown, late consort of Benjamin Brown Esq. in Salem. : [Three lines from Ruth III]Eureka. The vertuous woman found. A short essay on the memory of Mrs. Mary Brown, late consort of Benjamin Brown Esq. in Salem. : [Three lines from Ruth III]
Boston: printed by Bartholomew Green, 1704
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.
Though you must lose the Satisfaction of being Enriched with her Natural Offspring (by a Shipwreck on the very Stocks,) Yet let it now satisfy you, that the Gentlewomen, that will imitate her, shall be her Daughters, and will call her Blessed.
Though you must lose the Satisfaction of being Enrich'd with her Natural Offspring (by a Shipwrack on the very Stocks,) Yet let it now satisfy you, that the Gentlewomen, that will imitate her, shall be her Daughters, and will call her Blessed.
Some Eminent Persons, have left it as a Dying charge unto their Friends, That they should allow no Mean Verses to be made upon them. Had Madam done so, this Essay had also been Stifled in the Birth; for the Author is not more a Stranger to You, than he is unto Versifications: Neither a Poet, nor the Son of a Poet.
What Poetry, unto which he does not in the least measure pretend, could not help him to Accomplish, Affection to you and yours has moved him to Endeavour. He Prays you, not so much as to enquire, Who tis; All that he will Tell you, is, That he is one who Prays for you, That by a Profound Resignation to the Will of God, and Mortification to a World which (now at least) you find remarkably Embittered, you may be prepared for the best of Consolations.
What Poetry, unto which he does not in the least measure pretend, could not help him to Accomplish, Affection to you and yours has mov'd him to Endeavour. He Prays you, not so much as to enquire, Who tis; All that he will Tell you, is, That he is one who Prays for you, That by a Profound Resignation to the Will of God, and Mortification to a World which (now at least) you find remarkably Embittered, you may be prepared for the best of Consolations.