The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Vol II With Life, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes
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Chapter 18 EPITAPH ON THE LADY WHITMORE.

Fair, kind, and true, a treasure each alone,

A wife, a mistress, and a friend in one,

Rest in this tomb, raised at thy husband's cost,

Here sadly summing what he had, and lost.

Come, virgins, ere in equal bands ye join,

Come first, and offer at her sacred shrine;

Pray but for half the virtues of this wife,

Compound for all the

            
            

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