Item 29 (Verse, Elegy), fols 19v-20v

An elegye written by the Lady A: S: to the Countess of Londonderry supposing her to be dead by her long silence

Since thou fair soul, art warbling to a sphere

...

The sexton to her knell, be Anne Southwell

[In the final line the words ""Answer'd well"" have been crossed out before the final two words, ""Anne Southwell"". The Countess of Londonderry is Cecily Ridgeway.]

Item 32 (Verse, Elegy), fol. 21v

An elegy written by Mr Barnard brother to Mrs Jernegan that died at Acton

Accept thou shrine of my dead saint

...

Till we shall meet and never part

Finis

[This is Henry King's ""The Exequy"", a poem popular in manuscript circulation (not printed until 1657). Jean Klene has found reference to the death of Mrs. Mary Jernegan of Acton in 1633 (see Klene edition, p. 195).]

Item 40 (Verse, Elegy), fol. 24r-v

Like a cold fatal sweat which ushers death

...

Whose influence may crown thy glorious war

[This is Henry King's elegy on Gustavus Adolphus .]

Item 67 (Verse, Elegy, Epitaph), fol. 73r

To the never dying memory of that lady every way worthy the Lady Anne Southwell who upon the second of October in the year of grace 1636: and of her age 63 slept sweetly in the Lord these few lines are dedicated by- Roger Cockes: a true lover and admirer of her virtues

The South wind blew upon a springing Well

...

That it may give the world perpetual light

[There are three columns of elegaic material on fol. 73r. This elegy appears in the left hand column.]

Item 69 (Verse, Elegy, Epitaph), fol. 73r

An epitaph composed to the eternal memory of the virtuous and well qualified lady the Lady Anne Southwell deceased the second of October 1636:

Seeking for choicest attributes to raise

...

Thou mayest give more but she deserves no less

[There are three columns of elegaic material on fol. 73r. This verse epitaph appears in the right hand column. Beneath the poem the initials ""H S"" are written.]

Item 39 (Verse, Elegy), fol. 58r-v

On the death of the Right honourable the Earl of Exeter.

What Alien is there, hasn't a pious tear,

...

And with his mourning countess mix your woe.

Item 40 (Verse, Elegy, Religious writing, Political writing), fols. 59r-60v

At the sight of the body of Our late gracious sovereign Lord King James 2nd As it lies at the English Monks.

Hic jacet, oft hic jacet poets sing,

...

Himself a saint, a Martyr was his sire.

Item 5 (Verse, Elegy), p. 177 [fol. 95r]

Written by my dear Husband at the Death of our 4:th (at that time) only Child, Robert Payler

Dear Wife, let's learn to get that Skill

...

To love Christ Jesus, & to loath our Sin

[

Dated and attributed at bottom: "Covent=Garden, Dec: 8:th 1650 George Payler". This poem is copied vertically, from the bottom to the top of the page; each couplet is numbered.

This poem is printed from the autograph manuscript in Germaine Greer, Jeslyn Medoff, Melinda Sansome and Susan Hastings, Kissing the Rod: An Anthology of Seventeenth-Century Women's Verse, London, Virago, 1988 , p. 157.

Item 6 (Verse, Elegy), p. 178 [fol. 95v]

Written by me at the same time on the Death of my 4:th, & only Child, Robert Payler

My Lord hath called for my Son

...

Enough my Lord; now let me die

[

Dated and attributed at bottom: "Covent-Garden, Dec: 10:th 1650. Mary Carey". This poem is copied vertically, from the bottom to the top of the page; each couplet is numbered.

This poem is printed from the autograph manuscript in Germaine Greer, Jeslyn Medoff, Melinda Sansome and Susan Hastings, Kissing the Rod: An Anthology of Seventeenth-Century Women's Verse, London, Virago, 1988 , pp. 156-157.

Item 7 (Verse, Elegy), p. 179 [fol. 96r]

Written by me at the Death of my 4:th Son, & 5:th Child Peregrine Payler

I thought my All was given before

...

Thy Hand-Maid's pleas'd, completely happy still

[

Dated and attributed at bottom: "Grove-Street, May, 12:th 1652. Mary Carey". This poem is copied vertically, from the bottom to the top of the page; each couplet is numbered.

This poem is printed from the autograph manuscript in Germaine Greer, Jeslyn Medoff, Melinda Sansome and Susan Hastings, Kissing the Rod: An Anthology of Seventeenth-Century Women's Verse, London, Virago, 1988 , pp. 157-158.

Item 11 (Verse, Elegy), pp. 215-222 [fols. 114r-117v]

Upon the Sight of my abortive Birth the 31:th of December 1657

What Birth is this? a poor despised Creature?

...

Amend it, Lord, & keep it still with thee

[

Dated and attributed at bottom: "January, 12:th 1657. saith Maria Carey always in Christ happy". This poem is copied vertically, from the bottom to the top of the page; each couplet is numbered.

This poem is printed from the autograph manuscript in Germaine Greer, Jeslyn Medoff, Melinda Sansome and Susan Hastings, Kissing the Rod: An Anthology of Seventeenth-Century Women's Verse, London, Virago, 1988 , pp. 158-161.

Item 15 (Verse, Elegy), pp. 94-98 [fols. 164v-166v]

His Grace the Duke of Buckingham's Verses upon the Memory of the late Thomas Lord Fairfax

Under this Stone doth lie

...

A Man as great in War, as just in Peace as he

[

There are three corrections-of one or two words-inserted in a much later hand.

See also Bodleian MSS Don. b. 8, p. xxxi; Douce 357, fol. 117; Lat. misc. c. 19, p. 377 (Crum U35). Printed in Poems on Affairs of State, , London, 1697, ; Brian Fairfax, Short Memorials of Thomas Lord Fairfax. Written by Himself, London, 1699, .

[pp. 99-108 [fols. 167r-171v] are blank except for ruling.]

[fol. [172] is blank, unruled and unpaginated.]

Item 37 (Verse, Elegy), fol.[89r-v]

An Elegy on the Death of the late King James September 1701

Dead is the man whom England once did fear

...

Because he so much trouble underwent.

By William Cowper at 12 years of age

[

The William Cowper mentioned here is the son of Sarah Cowper's son Spencer.

Followed by blank fol.[89v].

Item 54.1 (Verse, Elegy), pp.339-341

On the Lord Fairfax.

Under this stone doth lie

...

A man as great in war, as just in peace as he

Buckingham

Item 36 (Verse, Elegy, Devotional writing), fols.119r-v

On my Boy Henry

Here lies a Boy the finest child from me

...

I mourn not for thy Birth, nor Cry

[See also item 35.]

Item 42 (Verse, Elegy), fol. 127r

Made on the sight of the Countes of Bridgewater's Picture

On thy true Picture all may look

...

Thy children cannot give thee praise too much

Item 17 (Verse, Elegy), fols 28r-28v

[The scribe attributes the poem to "WP", which LaBelle deduces is Sir William Pershall .]

An elegy on the death of the Lady Frances Draicott

To die and to die young; and to die full

...

Except she had made earth heaven, she needs must die

Item 41 (Verse, Elegy), fol.137r - fol.143r

[The scribe attributes the poem to "BJ".]

An elegy on the Lady Jane Paulet, Marchioness of Winchester

What goodly ghost besprinkled with April dew

...

And sure of heaven rides triumphing in

[Fols 139v - 143 r are blank.]

Item 55 (Verse, Elegy), fol.182v - fol.184v

An elegy on his Mrs death

With bowed thoughts low as this hollow cell

...

I kiss, and shut the alabaster book

Item 10 (Verse, Elegy), p.xvii

A poem by Anne Halkett on her husband's death

Grieve no more (sad heart) since he's above

...

Thee; King of saints, the remaind[er o]f my days

[

This poem is one of two extant poems by Halkett (cf. NLS MS 6499, msItem 3).

The leaf is torn and the unpaginated verso of p.xvii is blank.

Item 1 (Verse, Elegy), pp. i-iv

[Scribe A (anon.)]

"Leave off ye pitying friends"

Elegies

Leave off ye pitying friends; leave off in vaine

...

That Pale and Cold retained a smiling grace

[Page iv is blank]

Item 2 (Verse, Elegy), p. v

Second

To the Sun shining into her Chamber

Bright day star look not in at me

...

Wailing a Public funeral

Item 3 (Verse, Elegy), pp. vi-viii

[This poem is written in the hand of Julius Hutchinson , according to David Norbrook (1997).]

"Ah! Why doth death its latest stroke delay"

These verses transcribed out of my other Book ~~~J: H:

Ah! Why doth death its latest stroke delay

...

I yet had Flourished in thy happiness

Memorandum: those verses were writ by Mrs Hutchinson on the occasion of the Colonel her Husband's being then a prisoner in the Tower: 1664

[This memorandum is incorrect; in fact, the poem is Eve's lament from canto 5 of Hutchinson's Order and Disorder (cf. Beinecke Osborn MS fb. 100).]

[Page viii is blank]

Item 4 (Verse, Elegy), pp. ix-xi

[The text now returns to the main hand (scribe A).]

3:d

Another on the Sun Shine

Heaven's glorious Eye which all the world surveys

...

No more shall need thy everquenched Light

Item 5.1 (Verse, Elegy), pp. xi-xii

Upon two pictures

Upon two pictures one a Gallant man Dressed up in Armour the other that same Honorable Person looking through a Prison Grate & leaning on a Bible

The table you here see presents

...

And triumphed in his funeral

Item 5.2 (Verse, Elegy), pp. xiii-xvi

On the Picture in Armour

This table faintly represents that face

...

thinking it more to win than to wear a Crown

[Page xvi is blank]

Item 5.3 (Verse, Elegy), pp. xvii-xx

On the Picture of the Prisoner

From that fair table turn your fixed Eyes

...

Than he had vanquished all his life before

[Page xx is blank]

Item 6 (Verse, Elegy), pp. xxi-xxii

To the Garden at Owthorpe

To the Garden at O: 7th

Poor desolate Garden smile no more on me

...

Give such a lover loveliness restore

Item 7 (Verse, Elegy), pp. xxiii-xxiv

The Night

The Night 8th

Heaven's Glory was wrapped up in Shrouds

...

Would both in one Just centre fix

[Poem in fourteen 4-line stanzas.]

Item 8 (Verse, Elegy), pp. xxv-xxvii

Another Night

Another Night ixth

Night took the alternate reign and hurled

...

Only the trickments of a tomb

[Poem in fourteen 4-line stanzas.]

Item 9 (Verse, Elegy), pp. xxvii-xxviii

The Recovery

My love life Crown Peace treasure Joys were lost

...

Are gloomy Slime and night's misleading fire

[If the poem beginning "Created beauties" (item 18) was considered to be a continuation of this poem, that would make a total of 76 lines.]

Item 10 (Verse, Elegy), pp. xxix-xxx

On my visit to WS

On my Visit to WS which I dreamt of That Night xith

Fancy that Sleeping makes us re-enjoy

...

No ornaments can deck me up again

Item 11 (Verse, Elegy), pp. xxxi-xxxiv

Musings in my evening walks at Owthorpe

Musings in my evening Walks at O 12th

With unseen teares and unheard groans

...

And now your sick souls despise.

[Page xxxiv is blank]

Item 12 (Verse, Elegy), pp. xxxv-xxxvi

"Unwelcome life why dost thou stay"

xiii

Unwelcome life why dost Thou stay

...

And faint strength firmly is renewed

Item 13 (Verse, Elegy), pp. xxxvii-xxxviii

On the Spring 1668

On The Spring 1668 xiv:

As the Triumphant Sounds and Shows

...

Who Lies low falls no second time

[Poem in twelve 4-line stanzas.]

Item 14 (Verse, Elegy, Epitaph), pp. xxxix-xl

An Epitaph

An Epitaph: xvth

The Consecrated Atoms treasured here

...

Exalted Still in Their Original

[Page xl is blank]

Item 15 (Verse, Elegy, Epitaph), p. xli

"Here a great Patriot lies"

xvi

Here a greate Patriot lies if what the Grave

...

Shall new Life to his Martyr's Cold dust bring

Item 16 (Verse, Elegy, Epitaph), p. xlii

"The precious ashes we have treasured here"

xvii

The Precious Ashes we have treasured here

...

As from its fining house more glorious Come

Item 17 (Verse, Elegy, Epitaph), p.xliii

[12-line poem.]

"The consecrated atoms sleeping here"

xviii

The Consecrated Atoms Sleeping here

...

His God their Stay his deathless name their Crown

Item 18 (Verse, Elegy), pp. xliii-xliv

"Created beauties which blind souls adore"

Created beauties which blind Souls adore

...

And nothing in its true form understood

[This may be considered as a continuation of "The Recovery" (item 9).]

Item 19 (Verse, Elegy, Epitaph), p. xlv

"Here a Great Patriot lies"

The Same a little Varied

Here a Great Patriot lies if what the Grave

...

His God their stay, his deathless name their Crown

[Poem in seven couplets.]

[The rubric seems to be referring to one of items 15 or 17, not item 18.]

Item 20 (Verse, Elegy, Epitaph), p. xlvi

"In vain we weeping marbles do incise"

Another xix

In vain we weeping Marbles do Incise

...

It shall not in death's mansion long abide

Item 21 (Verse, Elegy, Epitaph), p. xlvi

"Ye sons of England whose unquenched flame"

xx

Ye sons of England whose unquenched flame

...

Where Liberty sleeps in her Champions grave

Item 22 (Verse, Elegy, Epitaph), p. xlvii

"This monument doth not commemorate"

xxi

This Monument doth not Commemorate

...

Even There yet no Inglorious period have

Item 23 (Verse, Elegy, Song), pp. xlvii-xlix

A song

A Song xxii

What boots it this Pale Corpse to Crown

...

Thus are redeemed from the dark grave

[Poem in five 8-line stanzas.]

Item 24 (Verse, Elegy, Song), pp. xlix-xli

Another song

Another Song xxiii

Farewell my Joys

...

While woes Care not what they deplore

[Poem in four 4-line stanzas; the metre is alternated.]

[It is possible that this poem is incomplete.]

[Pages l-li are blank.]

Item 7 (Verse, Elegy), fol. 92v

Upon the death of King James

Our Sun departed yet no night appeared

...

till thou our Planet beest a fixed Star

[Title transcribed by Hand B.]

Item 10 (Verse, Elegy), fols. 93v-94r

Upon the death of John the son of Mr John Bide

Awake awake sad muse help to indite

...

John is not dead but hied him home before

[Line 13 is completed by Hand B. Title transcribed by Hand B.]

Item 28.2 (Verse, Elegy), fols. 167v-168r

Sonnet 1. The king's death

Afric' is fruitful in new monstrous shapes

...

This dying king did represent him last

Item 28.3 (Verse, Elegy), fols. 168v-171r

Sonnet 2. William Laud archbishop of Canterbury

Let these sad sonnets all in number ten

...

His sufferings had a part of martyrdom

Item 28.4 (Verse, Elegy), fols. 171r-172r

Sonnet 3. James Ussher Lord Primate of Armagh

Our Ussher from his earthly school is gone

...

Lies quiet there, his fame shall no time rust

Item 28.5 (Verse, Elegy), fols. 172r-174r

Sonnet 4 Joseph Hall Bishop of Norwich, Thomas Westfield B. of Bristol

Another star bright in our nation

...

Death changed him still changing to the best

Item 28.6 (Verse, Elegy), fols. 174v-175r

Son. 5 Thomas Dod D of D Chapplain to K James and King Charles successively, Dean of Rippon, and Rector of Ashbury, and Malpas in Cheshire

To Thomas Westfield join we Thomas Dod

...

That more delightful, where we hope to meet

Item 28.7 (Verse, Elegy), fols. 175r-176r

Son. 6 Richard Holdsworth D of D. Archdeacon of Huntington and master of Emmanuel college in Cambridge

In Doctor Holdsworth we do find

...

In one cause brought to their long home

Item 28.8 (Verse, Elegy), fols. 176v-178r

Son. 7. Upon his two most loving friends Mr Josias Shute Mr Ephraim Udall

His father was his master, children five

...

To one that left, so sweet a name behind

Item 28.9 (Verse, Elegy), fols. 178v-179r

Son. 8 Of Mr Edward Simmons

In Cambridge Caius college first did train

...

Thou has the chancel, we stand in the porch

Item 28.11 (Verse, Elegy), fol. 193v

Elegy on John Squire

A squire if we but view the word

...

Doth rest the soul of preaching Squire

Item 2.7 (Verse, Elegy), p. 8

[Three poems or verse extracts on the death of Queen Elizabeth, all of which appeared in Thomas Heywood, 's The life and death of Queene Elizabeth, (1639), sigs C5v, C6r, and C7r. One manuscript, Bodleian Library MS Rawlinson poet. 153, contains these three items on fol. 8v (Crum T1217, S387, S1076), suggesting that Lyttelton was not unique in grouping these items together, or indeed that she might have copied this grouping of extracts from a manuscript source. Later in this manuscript (see Item 6.14) Lyttelton includes the first verse of an epitaph on Queen Elizabeth which appeared in Heywood's printed volume on sig. C8r. The rest of the poetry on this page is a continuation of Dr. Evans's hymn (Item 2.5).]

Item 2.7.1 (Verse, Elegy), p. 8

Upon the remove of the body of Queen Elizabeth from Richmond where she died the 24 of March, 1602 the 45 year of her reign, and seventy of her age

The Queen was brought by water to Whitehall

...

She'd come by water, had she come by land

[Peter Beal argues that this poem was most likely written by Thomas Dekker and lists references to 35 extant manuscript copies of it ( Index of English Literary Manuscripts, vol. 1, part 1, pp. 235-239). Lyttelton probably transcribed it from Thomas Heywood's The life and death of Queene Elizabeth (1639), which prints it on sig. C5v.]

Item 6.42 (Verse, Elegy), p. 60 rev.

On Doctor Hewyt

Since he is dead report it thou my muse

...

The mother weeps and all the children cries

[Possibly John Hewitt, the royalist conspirator beheaded in 1658.]

Item 6.43 (Verse, Elegy), pp. 59-56 rev.

Psalme 56. v. 3. What time I am afraid I will trust in thee

When cold fear my soul doth shake

...

But by thy name, all this oh Lord

Item 6.44 (Verse, Elegy), pp. 55-54 rev.

Tears wept at the grave of Sir Albertus Morton by Henry Wotton

Silence in truth, would speak my sorrows best

...

And runs the rest of my remaining dust

[For two other poems by this author see Items 6.10 and 6.12.]

Item 6.45 (Verse, Elegy), pp. 53-51 rev.

Dr R Corbet's elegy on his own father

Vincent Corbet, farther known

...

Thy life be written, and not read

[Richard Corbett was a poet with a connection to Norwich (he became Bishop of Norwich in 1632) and known by Sir Thomas Browne. Lyttelton might have known his work through this local connection or she might have had access to manuscript versions, since this was a popular poem (15 manuscript copies are extant; Beal, Index of English Literary Manuscripts, vol. 2, part 1, pp. 167-168). For two other Corbett poems see Items 6.46 and 6.50.]

Item 6.46 (Verse, Elegy), p. 50 rev.

To his son Vincent Corbet

What I shall leave thee none can tell

...

As innocent as now thou art

[This poem was written by Richard Corbett. It survives in 24 manuscript copies (Beal, Index of English Literary Manuscripts, vol. 2, part 1, pp. 195-197). See also Items 6.45 and 6.50.]

Item 5 (Verse, Elegy), p. 2

In Memory of Mr William Cartwright

Stay Prince of fancy stay, we are not fit

...

'Tis high wit-treason to debase thy coins

Item 48 (Verse, Elegy), pp. 58-59

On the death of the Duke of Gloucester

Great Gloucester's dead, and yet in this we must

...

It is too much great Gods! send some allay

Item 49 (Verse, Elegy), pp. 60-62

In memory of F: P: who died at Acton 24 May 1660 13th of her age

If I could ever write a lasting verse

...

Ever to be repaird or forgot

Item 51 (Verse, Elegy), pp. 64-65

On the death of the Queen of Bohemia

Although the most do with officious heat

...

And after all her wrongs may do her right

Item 58 (Verse, Elegy), pp. 80-81

In memory of Mrs E. H.

As some choice plant cherished by sun & air

...

More apt to live, than write thy Elegy

[

Mrs E. Hering is as yet unidentified.

Item 66 (Verse, Elegy), pp. 94-95

In memory of Mrs Owen of Orielton

As when the ancient world by reason liv'd

...

Prudent & good, Noble & sweet as she

Item 68 (Verse, Elegy), pp. 98-100

In memory of the excellent Mrs Mary Lloyd, of Denbighshire. who died 13 November 1656

I can not hold, for though to write be rude

...

'Tis more to die a saint, than live a Queen

Item 27 (Verse, Elegy), pp. 270-273

In memory of that Excellent Person, Mrs Lloyd, of Bodidrist, in Denbighshire

I cannot hold, for though to write be rude

...

'Tis more to die a Saint than live a Queen

Item 39 (Verse, Elegy), pp. 294-296

On the death of the Duke of Gloucester

Great Gloucester's dead! & yet in this we must

...

It is too much, Great Gods send some allay

Item 44 (Verse, Elegy), pp. 302-303

On the death of the Queen of Bohemia

Although the most do with officious heat

...

And after all her wrongs, may do her right

Item 46 (Verse, Elegy), pp. 306-309

In memory of my Dear F: P: who dy'd the 24 of May. 1660; at: 12: years & a half old

If I could ever write a lasting verse

...

Ever to be repaired or forgot

Item 68 (Verse, Elegy), pp. 345[347]-346[348]

On the Death of my Lord Rich only son to the Earl of Warwick , who dy'd of the Small Pox. 1664

Have not so many precious lives, of late

...

What can we safely either hope, or Love

Item 72 (Verse, Elegy), p. 351[353]

In Memory of Mr Cartwright

Stay, Prince of Fancy, stay, we are not fit

...

'Tis high wit-Treason to debase thy coin

Item 92 (Verse, Elegy), pp. 375[377]-377[379]

In memory of the most justly honoured Mrs Owen of Orielton

As when the ancient World by Reason liv'd

...

Prudent & Good, Noble & Sweet, as she

Item 93 (Verse, Elegy), pp. 378[380]-379[381]

In Memory of Mrs E. H

As some choice Plant cherish'd by Sun & Air

...

More apt to live than write thy Elegy

[

Mrs E. Hering is as yet unidentified.

Item 7 (Verse, Elegy), p. 7

In memory of Mr Cartwright

Stay prince of Fancy stay we are not fit

...

'Tis high wit-Treason to debase thy coin

Item 37 (Verse, Elegy, Song), p. 111

On the death of my first & dearest child, Hector Philipps born the 23d of April & dy'd the 2d of May 1655. set by Mr Lawes

Twice Forty months in wedlock I did stay

...

So ill can mortals their afflictions spell

[

Only the first two of four stanzas are transcribed here: the numbers 3 and 4 are written, with space for the text, which was not inserted.

For the musical setting, see Joan Applegate, "Katherine Philips's "Orinda upon Little Hector" : an Unrecorded Musical Setting by Henry Lawes", English Manuscript Studies 1100-1700, 4, 272-280, 1993.

Item 40 (Verse, Elegy), pp. 119, 121, 123, 125

In memory of that excellent person Mrs Mary Lloyd of Bodidrist in Denbighshire who died the 13th of Novemb. 1656 soon after she came thither from Denbighshire

I cannot hold, for though to write be rude

...

'Tis more to die a Saint, than Live a Queen

[

The ruling of the recto leaves becomes very scant from p. 119. The text of this elegy is copied to occupy the full page, bar the left margin. There are lines ruled on pp. 121, 123, 125, but these were drawn after the fact; they surround the text, rather than the text fitting inside them. Further, instead of Philips's characteristic flourish at the end of a poem, a simple line is drawn across, and the next poem begins immediately underneath.

[pp. 120, 122 and 124 are blank and unruled.]

Item 55 (Verse, Elegy), pp. 172, 170

In memory of Mrs E. Hering

As some choice Plant, cherish'd by sun, & air

...

More apt to live, than write thy Elegy

[

The title originally read "In memory of Mrs E. H.", altered to " E. Hering" in a different ink. Hering is as yet unidentified.

[pp. 171 and 169 are blank and unruled.]

Item 62 (Verse, Elegy), pp. 136, 134, 132

In memory of the most Justly honour'd Mrs Owen of Orielton

As when the ancient world by reason liv'd

...

Prudent & good, noble & sweet as She

Item 2 (Verse, Elegy, Religious writing), fol. 143v-r (rev.)

verses I made on the death of my Dear Child Katherine who departed this Life upon St. Lucy's Day

This day my Blessed babe to Heaven ascended

...

which is all the greatness I desire: Amen

Item 3 (Verse, Elegy, Religious writing), fols. 142v-141v (rev.)

verses on the death of my Dear Husband who departed this Life on St. Mathias day 1671

On St. Mathias day, why (o Lord) then

...

Me Love afflictions for the afflicter's sake

Item 26 (Verse, Elegy), fols. 21v-22r

Verses made upon the death of the aforenamed Mris Battina Cromwell

Here lies the body that did once enshrine

...

her heaven-born soul, lives happy 'mongst the just

[

For information as to the subject of this elegy, see item 25.

Item 27 (Verse, Elegy), fol. 22r

Grief's farewell, to an Inheritor of joy

Farewell sweet infant; blissful babe adieu

...

as whom I saw in pain in bliss to see

[

This elegy on the death of an infant may be authored by Anna Williams, alias Cromwell. It is reprinted in Stephenson and Davidson, pp. 363-364.