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<HEAD>THE Queen of the Milk-women; OR, AN ELEGY Occa&s;ion'd by the Death of, Mrs. E. G.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">Who departed this life on <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"></HI> Morning <HI>October 6th</HI> 1698. As all&s;o a full and true Account how &s;he <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"> Sta<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"> <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> Three&s;core Milk-women in Mourning for her.</HEAD>
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<L>COme you <HI>La&s;&s;es</HI> and <HI>Maids,</HI></L>
<L>VVho pur&s;ue <HI>Milking</HI> Trades,</L>
<L>With your <HI>Pail:</HI> on your Heads &s;trait appear&punc;</L>
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<LG>
<L>Whil&s;t I mourn the &s;ad fall,</L>
<L>Of the Cheif of you All,</L>
<L>And the be&s;t too as much as <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"></HI></L>
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<LG>
<L>She's Dead, let each pour</L>
<L>Or her Corps a Milk &s;hower,</L>
<L>To pre&s;erve and to moi&s;ten <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"></L>
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<LG>
<L>That a Per&s;on &s;o ju&s;t</L>
<L>May'nt too &s;oon <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> to Du&s;t,</L>
<L>Or too <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"> Vermin a <HI>Prey</HI></L>
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<LG>
<L>Ah! how when all <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"></L>
<L>She grac'd tho&s;e who &s;urvive,</L>
<L>Who admir'd at the Qualities in <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"></L>
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<LG>
<L>How She look'd like a <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"></L>
<L>When She Danc'd upon <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"></HI></L>
<L>VVith her Green <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"></HI></L>
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<LG>
<L>But her Maidens may boa&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>Of her Charity mo&s;t,</L>
<L>And her goodne&s;s in g<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"> <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> Liquor;</L>
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<LG>
<L>For Lord how She'd Swill,</L>
<L>And give each of 'm her <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"></L>
<L>To make 'em mo<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters"> &s;p<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="3 letters"> <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"></L>
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<LG>
<L>Both <HI>Di&s;tiller</HI> and <HI>Ho&s;t,</HI></L>
<L>May lament that, &s;he's <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"></L>
<L>For &s;he was their <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"></HI> certain <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"></L>
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<LG>
<L>And a <HI>B<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">n Companion,</HI></L>
<L>As chearful as any one</L>
<L>Whil&s;t the <HI>Quartern</HI> and <HI>Bottle</HI> did <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"></L>
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<LG>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> had other good vertu<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">s</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">hich &s;he &s;how'd to all parties,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ot da&s;hing her n<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">w M<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">lk with water,</L>
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<LG>
<L>And &s;he took as great plea&s;ure</L>
<L>In f<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"> and full Mea&s;ure.</L>
<L>As the re&s;t of her Trade do in <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word">.</L>
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<LG>
<L>Th<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 span"> uncommon de&s;erts,</L>
<L>May <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ake all <HI>True Hearts.</HI></L>
<L>To conclude that &s;he dy'd well and Godly,</L>
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<LG>
<L>For if &s;he had not,</L>
<L>Took up her full Pot,</L>
<L>Her death would have look'd very Odly.</L>
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<LG>
<L>But now Three&s;core trapes,</L>
<L>Are in black Cloth, and Crapes,</L>
<L>As an Argument that &s;he dy'd well.</L>
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<LG>
<L>I mean well to pa&s;s,</L>
<L>For wi&s;e man nor A&s;s,</L>
<L>Any more of her Exit can <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">ll.</L>
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<LG>
<L>She &s;erv'd Queen, her Mi&s;tre&s;s</L>
<L>late of, and in di&s;tre&s;s,</L>
<L>And I mu&s;t needs &s;ay this to her Honour,</L>
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<LG>
<L>Tho' Her Mony was good,</L>
<L>As no doubt a <HI>Queen's</HI> &s;hou'd</L>
<L>She had mony a fair <HI>Coach-Wheel</HI> upon her</L>
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<LG>
<L>As &s;he &s;erv'd High and Great,</L>
<L><GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> Lies now in State,</L>
<L>By Rich and by Poor to be &s;een,</L>
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<LG>
<L>With Milk &s;he &s;upply'd</L>
<L>The Queen <HI>Dowager's</HI> Bride,</L>
<L>And of Milk-Women &s;he Dy'd the Queen.</L>
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