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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.
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⟩How Frugal, yet how Generous! How Modest, yet how Courteous! How Silent, yet how Affable! How Wise, how Pure, how Peaceable, As Child, her Parents Joy; As Wife, Her Husbands Crown, and Heart, and Life. As Mother She, a Fruitful Vine, Her Offspring of an Holy Lin•, By Holy Nurture made them Shine.
Her Maiden Vertues rendred her, A Meet-Help for a Minister, For the best Women, the just Jewes (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⟩How Frugal, yet how Generous! How Modest, yet how Courteous! How Silent, yet how Affable! How Wise, how Pure, how Peaceable, As Child, her Parents Joy; As Wife, Her Husbands Crown, and Heart, and Life. As Mother She, a Fruitful Vine, Her Offspring of an Holy Lin, By Holy Nurture made them Shine.