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OH MI DEAR CHILDREN MARKE WHAT I SAYE,

YOUR MOTHERS BONES TRULI ARE WRAPT HERE IN CLAY,

HER SOULE NO DOUPTE, TO HEAVEN IS GONE THITHER,

WHER WE MOST JOYFULLY SHALL MEET ALLTOGETHER,

THE LORD BE YOUR GUIDE, THE LORD BE YOUR STRENGTH,

AND GIVE YOU HIS SPECIAL GRACE TO DIE IN HIM AT LENGTH,

YOU GENTELL READERS REMEMBER YOUR END,

BE TRUE UNTO SUCH WHOM FAITHFULL YOU FIND,

LET THIS BE EXAMPLE AND TELL HIT ABROAD,

HOW FAITHFULLI THIS WOMAN DIED IN THE LORD,

REST IN THE LORD MOST LOVING WIFE,,

THY DAIES ARE SPENT AND GONNE,

THY HUSBAND'S RACE AND END OF LIFE,

SHALL BE, GOD KNOWETH HOW SOON.,

THOUGH DEATH HATH DOON THE WORST HE CAN,

TO PART US TWAYN A SPACE,,

YET TIME WILL COME TO MEET AGAIN,

IN HEAVEN THAT JOYFULL PLACE,

WITH BITTER TEARS THY HUSBAND SPAKE,

THESE WORDS UPON THY TOOMBE,,

HIS HAND DID WRITE, THES VERS DID MAKE,,

TO SHOW IN TIME TO CUM,

HOW FAITHFULL THOU HAS BEEN TO ME,

AND HADDEST SIX CHILDREN DEAR,

WITHIN SIX YEARE A MARVELL TO SEE,

ALL BORN THE SAME TIME OF YEARE,

THE SEVENTH ALSO IN LIKE MANNER,,

IF DEATH HAD NOT THEM LETT,

BORNE HAD BEEN AS THE OTHER WEAR,

AT MIDSOMER TIME DIRECT.,

ALAS HOW SHOULD IT CHANCE SO BAD,

TO LITTLE BABES SO YOUNG,,

TO TELL IN TIME WHAT LOSSE THEY HAD,

BI NATURE WHENCE THEY SPROUNG.,

BUT GOD IS HE WHO GIVITH LIFE,

AND HE THAT TAKES AWAY,,

LET US THEREFORE AVOYD ALL STRIFE,

AND GEVE OURSELVES TO PRAY.,

THY CHILDREN'S NAMES IF MEN WOULD KNOW,,

WHICH GOD HATH GEVEN TO THEE,,

BEHOLD ARE WRITTEN HERE BELOW,

IN ORDER AS THEY BEE.

THOMAS, WILLIAM, ELIZABETH, FERNDINANDO, GEORGE, THOMAS

ABOUT THESE VERSES, IN THE LIMBE, THUS HERE LIETH JUDETH PRATOR, WIFE OF ANTHONY PRATER, GENTILMAN, DAUGHTER UNTO THOMAS IVIE, ESQR., WHO DIED THE SIXTH DAY OF FEBRUARY, ANNO DOMINI 1578.