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;