27-8 These run in MS.:

Whilst it demonstrates Time's swift flight

In the black lines of shady night.

30 The] MS. 'His'.

35 MS. 'in loss'.


An Elegy, occasioned by the loss of the most incomparable
Lady Stanhope, daughter to the Earl of Northumberland.

[Died November 29, 1654.]

Light'ned by that dim torch our sorrow bears,

We sadly trace thy coffin with our tears;