AN ELOGIE On the Deplorable Death of the Right Honourable Margaret Countess of Rothes. Who Departed this Life the 22d. August 1700.
Now the most Fragrant Flower of
Femal Kvnde,
In this our Age, falls, scarce is left behind,
Or may her Parallel for Pietie,
Pregnant Patience, and Christian Charitie:
Her Noble Actions made her Virtues known,
And to Posterity they ought to be shown,
For Pietie and Charitie always did
Attend each Motion of her Sp'rit which hid,
Cou'd no ways be, when those who timely were
Objects of Charity apply'd to her,
The Widdows Reli
[...]ff, and the Orphans stay.
To the Disc
[...]n
[...]olat she was alway
A timely support; So that her Worth and Fame,
Throughout all Ages her. Vertues shall proclaime.
A tender Mother, and a Loveing Wife;
Yea truely Chest in every step of Life,
Inclynd to Vertue in all things that might tend
To the Advantage of her dearest Freind,
Constant Affection, Inviolable Love,
Did to her Noble Consort allways prove,
Her Chastity to him to be sincere
Dureing her Weddlock Bonds, and since they were,
Dissolv'd by Death to're Noble Off-spring she,
And others of her Sex for pietie;
And Vertue hath allways a Matron been,
That non her to Excell was ever seen:
For as she was most Noble by her Birth:
So farr more Noble was she for her worth;
That all who know her Actions must Confess:
No Tongue or pen is able to Express,
The great Renown the memory of her Name,
Doth still Deserve, for Everlasting Fame,
Shall it Proclaim to Future Ages, That
Posterities her praise may Celebrate.
From time to time, while time doth Remain,
Untill the World dissolve, and her Soul come again.
Which is ascended I presume to Rest.
Into Eternall joyes, with those are blest;
For Pietie and Vertue did attend,
All the actions of her Life unto the End.