Chang'd from her husband's, to her mother's, bed;

Or from his bosom into Abram's rather,

Where now she rests, Blest Soul, in such a Father.

Thus Death hath done his best, and worst. His best,

10In sending Virtue to her place of rest;

His worst, in leaving him, as dead, in life

Whose chiefest Joys were in his dearest Wife.

A Second Elegy on the Countess of Leinster.] Hannah found this in the Pickering MS. 'immediately after' the printed one v. supra. On what other grounds he assigned its subject I do not know; but both, as noted above, have a most extraordinary efflorescence of capitals.


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