And (to the last her thought, her conscience clear)
Forgiving all, forgiven and approved,
To peaceful worlds her peaceful soul removed.
The above panegyric was drawn up as a reply to an epitaph of another character, which was then in circulation, from the pen of a writer who contemplated his subject in another point of view. It was to this effect:—
Here lies unpitied, both by Church and State,
The subject of their flattery and hate;
Flatter’d by those on whom her favours flow’d,
Hated for favours impiously bestow’d;
Who aim’d the Church by Churchmen to betray,
And hoped to share in arbitrary sway.