35Her soule was Paradise; the Cherubin

Set to keepe it was grace, that kept out sinne.

Shee had no more then let in death, for wee

All reape consumption from one fruitfull tree.

God tooke her hence, lest some of us should love

40Her, like that plant, him and his lawes above,

And when wee teares, hee mercy shed in this,

To raise our mindes to heaven where now she is;

Who if her vertues would have let her stay