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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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⟩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 Sett-Offs, but Truth in every Line, We do Delineate our Heroine. Grammar makes TRUTH, a SHEE; we shall with care Nothing but very Truth of Her declare.

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TRUTH, Thou shalt be my Muse, and first relate How MARY Shone first in her Virgin-State. To Learn or Do some Good thing every Day Was the Prime Study of this Agatha. Ambitious Early to Enjoy a Mind, From Earth, and Foggy Ignorance refined. A Bible, not Romance, her Eyes before, Then daily helped her Heaven to implore. Tutors one never more obedient saw; Their Word, their very Look, She made her Law. To fill her Soul with high Attainments, She Gladly Out-Laboured the Industrious Be. No Hind Let Loose; but Guarded well, and grave; Most Goodly Words, yet our Eulalia gave. Not Confident; Like Damsels which their Chin Contrive more than their Tongue, to Bridle in. Not of the Gadding Tribe; nor could She bear, So Chaste! the least Indecent Thing to hear. With still a Silent Blush, her Rising Blood Spoke in her Face, Care to be very Good. Pale with the Fear of doing ill, and Red With Modesty, was all the Paint She had.

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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…

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.

Written in Commemoration of the Dead, and Consolation of the Living.

Reformers309

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Westminster Assembly24

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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.

Written in Commemoration of the Dead, and Consolation of the Living.