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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<HEAD>To the Memory of the right Honourable MARGARET COUNTESS OF WEEMS. <HI>Who departed this Life at</HI> VVeems, <DATE>February 20 1688.</DATE></HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">A F&V;NERAL ELEGIE.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>LIke as an aged lofty-fronted Oak,</L>
<L>Who&s;e Verdure, Boughs, and Shelter, might provock,</L>
<L>The proude&s;t in the <HI>Dodonean</HI> Grove,</L>
<L>Which Super&s;tition did devout to Jove,</L>
<L>Hath many bla&s;ts, and many Sun-&s;hines known,</L>
<L>At la&s;t unto the dreadful Axe falls down,</L>
<L>So Dies this <HI>Lady,</HI> whom the Age did find,</L>
<L>Perfections <HI>Zenith</HI> to all Woman-kind.</L>
<L>But as when thorow crouds we make our way,</L>
<L>It falls, that each mans ha&s;te, the whole doth &s;tay,</L>
<L>So fares it in this Subject; that I doubt</L>
<L>So much would pa&s;s, that nothing can get out.</L>
<L>For as Her Birth was honourable, and hie,</L>
<L>Come of the greate&s;t of Nobility.</L>
<L>Her Brother, the Great <HI>Rothes,</HI> nothing under</L>
<L>His Princes Darling, and the Ages wonder,</L>
<L>Who&s;e Worth, and Wit, &s;uch hight of Honours won,</L>
<L>That made him <HI>Vice Roy,</HI> to the Imperial Throne.</L>
<L>Her &s;elf by Heaven, and Earth &s;o honoured</L>
<L>She heir'd three Earldoms with Her nuptial Bed</L>
<L>In all the which, either for Wife, or Mother,</L>
<L><HI>Scotland</HI> &s;hall never parallel another:</L>
<L>She in the Floods of Wealth, practi&s;'d Au&s;terity,</L>
<L>And in a throng of Hypocrites, Sincerity.</L>
<L>When cro&s;t (by Pious Patience) &s;he was able</L>
<L>To make mi&s;fortunes look mo&s;t amiable.</L>
<L>That her Familiars concluded all,</L>
<L>Dam Nature, had forgot to give her gall.</L>
<L>Her Humors &s;o well poi&s;ed all did &s;ee,</L>
<L>In &s;tead of <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word">, &s;he got <HI>Geometrie.</HI></L>
<L>So &s;tedfa&s;t <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> to her was all one matter</L>
<L>If &s;miles, <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span">, did cau&s;e the eyes to water.</L>
<L>Of Fortunes both, &s;he &s;till &s;uch mea&s;ures had,</L>
<L>The hotte&s;t Sun ca&s;ts &s;till the blacke&s;t &s;hade.</L>
<L>Where hone&s;ty is fixed, there no wind</L>
<L>Can blow't away, or glittering look it blind.</L>
<L>She knew that the ju&s;t <HI>Heavens</HI> oftimes decree,</L>
<L>For joyes uncertain, certain mi&s;erie.</L>
<L>That glorious nothing, guilded emptine&s;s,</L>
<L><HI>Honour;</HI> did Her great Soul the more depre&s;s.</L>
<L>So humble always, that Her very glance</L>
<L>Put pride imperious out of countenance.</L>
<L>She did abhor the world, tho lodg'd therein,</L>
<L>As fi&s;h continue fre&s;h, in &s;eas of brin.</L>
<L>In mid&s;t of Delicats &s;he was content,</L>
<L>To make her Fea&s;ts, but hungers bani&s;hment,</L>
<L>To Rea&s;on alwayes &s;he did &s;en&s;e &s;ubmit,</L>
<L>And made it bridle ranging appetit.</L>
<L>She neither was too ba&s;hful, nor too bold;</L>
<L>Patern to young, and Patron to the old.</L>
<L>Her Charitie, made her be like the Sun,</L>
<L>Extending Light and Heat to every one;</L>
<L>That with the re&s;t &s;he had this divine qualitie,</L>
<L>That mo&s;t re&s;embleth Heaven, <HI>Liberality.</HI></L>
<L>She of all, wherewith <HI>God</HI> had her endued,</L>
<L>Her &s;elf a Stuard, more than owner <UNCLEAR>&s;hewed</UNCLEAR>.</L>
<L>None of this ages iron-hearted wretches,</L>
<L>That rather part with <HI>God,</HI> then <HI>Gold,</HI> or riches.</L>
<L>Who to <HI>Eternity,</HI> will feell the knell,</L>
<L>Wealth was the bridge that pa&s;t them po&s;t to Hell.</L>
<L>So debonair and complai&s;ant was She,</L>
<L>Her Mind and Mouth had &s;till a Sympathie.</L>
<L>Nor with the&s;e peevi&s;h Dams, could &s;he complie,</L>
<L>Who what they covet mo&s;t, do mo&s;t deny</L>
<L>Truth rides in Triumph, when Fig-leaves do fail,</L>
<L>Hypocri&s;ie it is but Vertues Vail.</L>
<L>But She excelled in a high degree,</L>
<L>Both in Devotion, and in Charitie.</L>
<L>The great Examplar of all Good, beneath</L>
<L>Wee'll &s;ay She Liv'd, while others only Breath,</L>
<L>She Liv'd, and Died, a Lady mo&s;t compleat,</L>
<L>And which is wonderful, as Good, as Great.</L>
<L><HI>To Ages all, then Lady Weems here lyes</HI></L>
<L><HI>Ju&s;tly &s;ir nam'd</HI> the Pious, Good, and Wi&s;e,</L>
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<L><HI>Nunquam parca minus quam hic, quae commaniatoti</HI></L>
<L><HI>Genti &s;ceptra tenens, aternaque foeder a &s;ervans</HI></L>
<L><HI>Quae magnos parvo&s;que terit, qua fortibus aquat</HI></L>
<L><HI>Imbelles, populi&s;que duces, &s;eniumque juventae.</HI></L>
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<Q>Si frequentius de morte tua, quam de vitae longitudine cogita|res, non dubium e&s;t, quin ardentius te ip&s;um cirrigeres.</Q>
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<CLOSER><SIGNED>N. Pater&s;on.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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