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Monica Americana. A funeral sermon, occasioned by the death of Mrs. Sarah Leveret, (once…
Monica Americana. A funeral sermon, occasioned by the death of Mrs. Sarah Leveret, (once the honourable consort of John Leveret Esq. governor of the Massachuset-Colony, New-England,) who changed earth for heaven. 2 d. 11 m. 1704. : With an elegy upon her memory. : [Two lines from Augustine]Monica Americana. A funeral sermon, occasioned by the death of Mrs. Sarah Leveret, (once the honourable consort of John Leveret Esq. governour of the Massachuset-Colony, New-England,) who changed earth for heaven. 2 d. 11 m. 1704. : With an elegy upon her memory. : [Two lines from Augustine]
Boston: printed for Samuel Phillips, 1705
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.
None You Reproached; But every Person knew What Good You could, You'd every Person • There, Madam, lay Your Skill: By Goodness tis We charm fell Serpents, that they cannot hiss.
None You Reproach'd; But every Person knew What Good You could, You'd every Person • There, Madam, lay Your Skill: By Goodness tis We charm fell Serpents, that they cannot hiss.
Till grown for Earth too Good, on Earth she grew Heaven claimed her then; and then to Heaven she fle• Luxurious Death; such Pearls to Swallow thus! Famed Cleopatra's Daughter was less profuse.
Till grown for Earth too Good, on Earth she grew Heav'n claim'd her then; and then to Heav'n she fle• Luxurious Death; such Pearls to Swallow thus! Fam'd Cleopatra's Daughter was less profuse.
You rash Astronomers, the Stars miscall, A Dog you style the brightest of them all. Correct an Error which You find so Great; Your Sirius now shall be a LEVERET. Else the most Fulgid Lamp, which Heaven did sh• And then took in an Hundred Years ago, Now She's got there, will once again appear, And radiant Sit in Cassiopeia's Chair.
You rash Astronomers, the Stars miscall, A Dog you style the brightest of them all. Correct an Error which You find so Great; Your Sirius now shall be a LEVERET. Else the most Fulgid Lamp, which Heav'n did sh• And then took in an Hundred Years ago, Now She's got there, will once again appear, And radiant Sit in Cassiopea's Chair.