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Meat out of the eater. Or, Funeral-discourses occasioned by the death of several relatives.…
Meat out of the eater. Or, Funeral-discourses occasioned by the death of several relatives. Work accommodated unto the service of all that are in any affliction; but very particularly such as are afflicted with the loss of their consorts or children. / By Cotton Mather. ; [Four lines from I Corinthians]
Boston: printed by B. Green & J. Allen for Benjamin Eliot, 1703
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.
My Muse, pass by her Out Side Grave; Say nothing of a Comely Face; Nor what most Lovely pleasantness Dwelt Chastely on her Charming Eyes; These and such Lilly-Glories fade, Absconded all in Deaths dark shade. Yet these again shall Rise and Shine, Ten Thousand times more bright and fine,
My Muse, pass by her Out Side Grave; Say nothing of a Comely Face; Nor what most Lovely pleasan••es Dwelt Chastly on her Charming Eyes; These and such Lilly-Glories fade, Absconded all in Deaths dark shade. Yet these again shall Rise and Shine, Ten Thousand times more bright and fine,
Say little of her Inside Grace; For this World is a Spiteful place; And takes it self for Injured If Saints are Praised Alive or Dead: And they for Wits are in Esteem, That Heavens Dwellers do b'a pheme. I hate their Humour, I profess, It Smells of such rank Wickedness Yet this Saint shall not go her ways, Without a Sprig or two of Bayes; Who well deserved far greater Praise.
Say little of her Inside Grace; For this World is a Spiteful place; And takes it self for Injured If Saints are Prais'd Alive or Dead: And they for Witts are in E'teem, That Heavens Dwellers do b'a pheme. I hate their Humour, I profess, It Smells of such rank Wickedness Yet this Saint shall not go her wayes, Without a Sprig or two of Bayes; Who well deserv'd far greater Praise.
Her Maiden Virtues rendered her, A Meet-Help for a Minister, For the best Women, the just Jews (You know) this proper phrase would use; A Woman worthy for to be Wife to a Priest: And such was She. Good; Studying that her Husband too Nothing but Good might always do, ⟨p. 190⟩