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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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. ⟨p. 3⟩Go on, dear TRUTH, charge once Truth-Speaking Fame To Tell whose Wife, & What She then became.

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 refin'd. A Bible, not Romance, her Eyes before, Then daily help'd 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, Shee Gladly Out-Labour'd the Industrious Bee. 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 Chast! 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. ⟨p. 3⟩Go on, dear TRUTH, charge once Truth-Speaking Fame To Tell whose Wife, & What She then became.

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Title as printed

Author

Cotton Mather 1663–1728

Place

Boston

Printer

Bartholomew Green

Year

1704

Size

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

Words

2,569

Catalogue

Evans 1121

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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.

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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.