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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<HEAD>AN ELOGIE On the Deplorable Death of the Right Honourable <HI>Mar|garet</HI> Counte&s;s of <HI>Rothes. Who Departed this Life</HI> <DATE><HI>the</HI> 22d. Augu&s;t 1700.</DATE></HEAD>
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<L>Now the mo&s;t Fragrant Flower of <HI>Femal</HI> Kvnde,</L>
<L>In this our Age, falls, &s;carce is left behind,</L>
<L>Or may her Parallel for Pietie,</L>
<L>Pregnant Patience, and Chri&s;tian Charitie:</L>
<L>Her Noble Actions made her Virtues known,</L>
<L>And to Po&s;terity they ought to be &s;hown,</L>
<L>For Pietie and Charitie always did</L>
<L>Attend each Motion of her Sp'rit which hid,</L>
<L>Cou'd no ways be, when tho&s;e who timely were</L>
<L>Objects of Charity apply'd to her,</L>
<L>The Widdows Reli<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ff, and the Orphans &s;tay.</L>
<L>To the Di&s;c<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">n<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">olat &s;he was alway</L>
<L>A timely &s;upport; So that her Worth and Fame,</L>
<L>Throughout all Ages her. Vertues &s;hall proclaime.</L>
<L>A tender Mother, and a Loveing Wife;</L>
<L>Yea truely Che&s;t in every &s;tep of Life,</L>
<L>Inclynd to Vertue in all things that might tend</L>
<L>To the Advantage of her deare&s;t Freind,</L>
<L>Con&s;tant Affection, Inviolable Love,</L>
<L>Did to her Noble Con&s;ort allways prove,</L>
<L>Her Cha&s;tity to him to be &s;incere</L>
<L>Dureing her Weddlock Bonds, and &s;ince they were,</L>
<L>Di&s;&s;olv'd by Death to're Noble Off-&s;pring &s;he,</L>
<L>And others of her Sex for pietie;</L>
<L>And Vertue hath allways a Matron been,</L>
<L>That non her to Excell was ever &s;een:</L>
<L>For as &s;he was mo&s;t Noble by her Birth:</L>
<L>So farr more Noble was &s;he for her worth;</L>
<L>That all who know her Actions mu&s;t Confe&s;s:</L>
<L>No Tongue or pen is able to Expre&s;s,</L>
<L>The great Renown the memory of her Name,</L>
<L>Doth &s;till De&s;erve, for Everla&s;ting Fame,</L>
<L>Shall it Proclaim to Future Ages, That</L>
<L>Po&s;terities her prai&s;e may Celebrate.</L>
<L>From time to time, while time doth Remain,</L>
<L>Untill the World di&s;&s;olve, and her Soul come again.</L>
<L>Which is a&s;cended I pre&s;ume to Re&s;t.</L>
<L>Into Eternall joyes, with tho&s;e are ble&s;t;</L>
<L>For Pietie and Vertue did attend,</L>
<L>All the actions of her Life unto the End.</L>
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