A foul fo calm, it knew not ebbs or flows,
Which paffion could but curl, not difcompofe.
A female foftnefs, with a manly mind:
A daughter duteous, and a fifter kind:
In fickness patient, and in death refign'd.

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EPITAPH

ON

MRS. MARGARET PASTON,

OF

BURNINGHAM IN NORFOLK.

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So fair, fo young, fo innocent, so sweet,
So ripe a judgment, and so rare a wit,
Require at least an age in one to meet.
In her they met; but long they could not stay,
'Twas gold too fine to mix without allay.
Heaven's image was in her fo well expreft,
Her very fight upbraided all the reft;
Too juftly ravish'd from an age
like this,
Now fhe is gone, the world is of a piece.

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ON THE

MONUMENT

OF THE

MARQUIS OF WINCHESTER.

HE who in impious times undaunted stood, And midft rebellion durft be just and good: Whofe arms afferted, and whose sufferings more Confirm'd the cause for which he fought before, Refts here, rewarded by an heavenly prince; 5 For what his earthly could not recompence. Pray, reader, that fuch times no more appear: Or, if they happen, learn true honour here.

Ver. 1. He who in impious] He was a nobleman of great spirit and intrepidity, who withstood in his magnificent castle of Bafing in Hampshire, an obftinate fiege of two years against the rebels, who levelled it to the ground, because in every window was written Aymer Loyauté. He died in 1674, and was buried in the church of Englefield in Berkshire, where his monument with this epitaph ftill remains. It is remarkable that Milton wrote a beautiful epitaph on the Marchionefs his lady. It was the fingular lot, both of husband and wife, to have received the honour of being celebrated by two fuch poets. Dr. J. WARTON.

Afk of this age's faith and loyalty,

Which, to preferve them, heaven confin'd in

thee.

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Few fubjects could a king like thine deserve : And fewer, fuch a king fo well could serve. Bleft king, blest subject, whose exalted state By fufferings rofe, and gave the law to fate. 14 Such fouls are rare, but mighty patterns given To earth, and meant for ornaments to heaven.

SONGS, ODES,

AND A

MASQUE.