Title page of Eureka. The virtuous woman found. A short essay on the memory of Mrs. Mary…, Boston, 1704

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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…

Name: Eureka. The virtuous woman found. A short essay on the memory of Mrs. Mary…
Author: Cotton Mather

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]

Cotton Mather 1663–1728Boston: printed by Bartholomew Green, 1704

[4], 11, [1] p. ; (8vo) · 2.6k words · Evans 1121

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An ELEGY Upon the DEATH of Mrs. MARY BROWN; Who Dyed in Travail, (w…: An ELEGY Upon the DEATH of Mrs. MARY BROWN; Who Dyed in Travail, (with her Unborn Child…

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An ELEGY Upon the DEATH of Mrs. MARY BROWN; Who Dyed in Travail, (with her Unborn Child;) On Dec. 26. 1703. Aetatis Suae 35.

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Monopolizing HE's, pretend no more Of Wit and Worth, to hoard up all the store. The Females too grow Wise & Good & Great; Some such in happy Salem find a Seat. Beware, my Sex, lest Females Win the Day, And Shame Us with revived Hybristica. Plutarch, Return to Life, and Write again, Of Women's Virtues, to Upbraid the Men.

MOnopolizing HEE's, pretend no more Of Wit and Worth, to hoard up all the store. The Females too grow Wise & Good & Great; Some such in happy Salem find a Seat. Beware, my Sex, lest Females Win the Day, And Shame Us with reviv'd Hybristica. Plutarch, Return to Life, and Write agen, Of Womens Virtues, to Upbraid the Men.

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When Virtuous Women are in Books Enrolled, Let our bright MARY's Name and Fate be told. Of Glorious Women, O Great Hottinger, In thy brave Catalogue, make Room for her. America thanks Europe, and does boast Her sending such a Gem unto our Coast. ⟨p. 2⟩Come hither, You that the fair Sex reproach; Confuted now, no more your Scandals broach. ONE rescues here the Fame of all the Sex; And will your Contradicted Envy Vex. With no Set-Offs, but Truth in every Line, We do Delineate our Heroine. Grammar makes TRUTH, a SHE; we shall with care Nothing but very Truth of Her declare.

When Vertuous Women are in Books Enroll'd, Let our bright MARY's Name and Fate be told. Of Glorious Women, O Great Hottinger, In thy brave Catalogue, make Room for her. America thanks Europe, and does boast Her sending such a Gem unto our Coast. ⟨p. 2⟩

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Author

Cotton Mather 1663–1728

Place

Boston

Printer

Bartholomew Green

Year

1704

Size

[4], 11, [1] p. ; (8vo)

Words

2,569

Catalogue

Evans 1121

Text

Evans-TCP N00937

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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…

An ELEGY Upon the DEATH of Mrs. MARY BROWN; Who Dyed in Travail, (with her Unborn Child;) On Dec. 26. 1703. Aetatis Suae 35.

A POEM On the DEATH of the Pious and Virtuous Gentlewoman Mrs. MARY BROWN, Wife of BENJAMIN BROWN Esq. Who (having Lived just Five and Thirty Years) with her Child, Dyed in Child-Bed. December 26th. Anno Domini, 1703.

A POEM On the DEATH of the Pious and Vertuous Gentlewoman Mrs. MARY BROWN, Wife of BENJAMIN BROWN Esq. Who (having Liv'd just Five and Thirty Years) with her Child, Dyed in Child-Bed. December 26th. Anno Domini, 1703.

Reformers309

Puritans1,782

Westminster Assembly24

Evangelicals36

An ELEGY Upon the DEATH of Mrs. MARY BROWN; Who Dyed in Travail, (with her Unborn Child;) On Dec. 26. 1703. Aetatis Suae 35.

A POEM On the DEATH of the Pious and Virtuous Gentlewoman Mrs. MARY BROWN, Wife of BENJAMIN BROWN Esq. Who (having Lived just Five and Thirty Years) with her Child, Dyed in Child-Bed. December 26th. Anno Domini, 1703.

A POEM On the DEATH of the Pious and Vertuous Gentlewoman Mrs. MARY BROWN, Wife of BENJAMIN BROWN Esq. Who (having Liv'd just Five and Thirty Years) with her Child, Dyed in Child-Bed. December 26th. Anno Domini, 1703.