An Epitaph On My Dear and Ever Honoured Mother Mrs. Dorothy Dudley

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Title:     An Epitaph On My Dear and Ever Honoured Mother Mrs. Dorothy Dudley
Author: Anne Bradstreet [More Titles by Bradstreet]

AN EPITAPH

ON MY DEAR AND EVER-HONORED MOTHER,

MRS. DOROTHY DUDLEY,

WHO DECEASED DECEMB 27 1643, AND OF HER AGE 61.

Here lyes
A worthy Matron of unspotted life,
A loving Mother and obedient wife,
A friendly Neighbor pitiful to poor,
Whom oft she fed and clothed with her store,
To Servants wisely aweful but yet kind,
And as they did so they reward did find;
A true Instructer of her Family,
The which she ordered with dexterity.
The publick meetings ever did frequent,
And in her Closet constant hours she spent;
Religious in all her words and wayes
Preparing still for death till end of dayes;
Of all her Children, Children lived to see,
Then dying, left a blessed memory."

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Anne Bradstreet's poem: Epitaph On My Dear and Ever Honoured Mother Mrs. Dorothy Dudley

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