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Show / \1 g T 0 E M S. An Epitaph on my Honoured Mother-in-Law Mrs^ Phillips of Portheynon in Cardigan-fhire, who dyed fan. i. Anno \66\J' R E a d e r ftay, it is but juft \ Thou doft not tread on common duff. For underneath this ftone does lye One whofe name can never dye : W h o from an Honour'd Linage fprung, W a s to another matched Young 5 Whofe happinefs fhe ever fought 5 One bleffing was, and many brought. And to her fpoufe her faith did prove By fifteen pledges of their Love. But when by Death of him depnv'd, A n honourable W i d o w liv'd Full four and twenty years, wherein Though fhe had much afflicted been, Saw many of her children fall, And publick Ruine threaten all. Yet from above affifted, fhe Both did and fufTer'd worthily. She to the Crown, and Church adher'd, And in their Sorrows them rever'd, With Piety which knew no ftrife, But was as fober as her life. A furnifh'd Table, open door, That for her Friends, this for the Poor She kept* yet did her fortune find, Too narrow for her nobler Mind } Which feeking objects to relieve, Did food to many Orphans give, ^ W h o in her Life no want did know, But all the Poor are Orphans now. Yet hold, her fame is much too fafe. T o need a written Epitaph. * % I * 0 E M & Her Fame was fo confefs'd, that (he Can never here forgotten be, Till Cardigan it felf become, To its own ruin d heaps a Tomb. J 59 Lucafia, Rofania, and Orinda parting at a Fountain, July 1662. 1. H E r e , here are our enjoyments done, b And fince the Love and Grief w e wear Forbids us either word or tear And Art wants here expreffion, See Nature furnifh us with one. 2. The kind and mournful N y m p h which here Inhabits in her humble Cells, N o longer her own forrow tells, Nor for it n o w concern'd appears, But for our parting fheds thefe tears. Unleft fhe may affli&ed be, Left w e lhould doubt her Innocence; Since (he hath loft her beft pretence Unto a matchleft purity; Our Love being clearer far than flie. Cold as the ftreams that from her flow, Or (if herprivaterreceft A greater Coldnefs can exprefs^) S Than |