The following EPITAPH on the Monument of my Kinfwoman was written at the Request of her Husband.. WITHIN the Burial-Vault near this Marble, lieth. the Body of PENELOPE, youngest Daughter (and. Coheir with her Sifter ELIZABETH) to ROBERT PHILIPS of Newton-Regis, in the County of Warwick, Efquire. She died in her Six and Thirtieth. Year, on the 25th Day of January, 1726., LET THIS INSCRIPTION, (Appealing yet to teftimonies manifold) Whether owing to the indulgency of nature, Or to the affiduous leffons of education, Receiving, deferving, winning,. Of countenance and of disposition, Open, chearful, modeft; Bb 3 4 I2 16 of Of behaviour, humble, courteous, eafy; In civilities, punctual, fincere, and elegant;. To comfort the afflicted; Solicitous for the poor, And rich in ftore of alms:: Whereby the became The delight, the love, the bleffing, of all. In her houshold flourished. Chearfulness, due order, thrift, and plenty. In the closet retired, In the temple public. Morning and evening did the worship; By instruction, by example, Sedulous to nurture her children in godliness: So prevalent her love to them, Visited with that fore disease, The mother's fondeft hopes, prayer. 20 24 28 32 36 40 44 To the MEMORY, ever dear and precious, of his moft affectionate, moft beloved, and most deserving Wife, is this Monument raifed by HENRY VERNON, of Hilton, in the County of Stafford, Efquire: to him the bore five Sons and two Daughters, all furviving, fave Elizabeth; who dying, in her second Year, of the Small-Pox, fome few Days before, refteth by her Mother. THE FABLE OF THULE, FA UNFINISHED. AR northward as the Dane extends his fway, In Cyprus, facred to the queen of love, (Where stands her temple, and her myrtle grove,) 17 And pregnant grew, the birth to chance affign'd Some ripen'd fruits, fome fragrant honey, bring;. 20 24 Some bright refemblance of the Cyprian queen : 28 32 And when, on springing flowers reclin'd, the fung, In forefts did the lonely beauty fhine, Like woodland flowers, which paint the defert glades, And waste their fweets in unfrequented fades. 40 No human face the faw, and rarely feen By human face: a folitary queen She rul'd, and rang'd, her fhady empire round. 44 With noify cry, difturbs her folemn chace, Swift, as the bounding stag, fhe wings her pace; And, And, bend whene'er fhe will her ebon bow, 48 Th' imperious queen of heaven, with jealous eyes, Beholds the blooming virgin from the skies, 52 At once admires, and dreads her growing charms, In vain, she finds, her bitter tongue reproves : Does Thule in obfcureft shades remain, While Maja's fon, the thunderer's winged spy, To calm her fears, and cafe her boding mind? She mounts her car, and shakes the filken reins; 56 60 64 68 72 76 By |