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EPITAPH ON MRS. ANNE PRIDEAUX, DAUGHTER OF DR. PRIDEAUX by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643)

Poet Analysis

First Line: NATURE IN THIS SMALL VOLUME WAS ABOUT
Last Line: THREW DUST UPON IT, AND SHUT UP THE BOOK
Subject(s): DEATH - CHILDREN; EPITAPHS; PRIDEAUX, JOHN (1578-1650); DEATH - BABIES;

SHE DIED AT THE AGE OF SIX YEARS.

NATURE in this small volume was about
To perfect what in woman was left out;
Yet fearful lest a piece so well begun
Might want preservatives, when she had done,
Ere she could finish what she undertook,
Threw dust upon it, and shut up the book



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