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Stay, view this stone: and, if thou beest not such,
Read here a little, that thou mayst know much.
It covers, first, a virgin; and then, one
That durst be that in court: a virtue alone
To fill an epitaph. But she had more.
She might have claimed to have made the Graces four;
Taught Pallas language; Cynthia modesty;
As fit to have increased the harmony
Of spheres, as light of stars; she was earth's eye:
The sole religious house, and votary,
With rites not bound, but conscience. Wouldst thou all?
She was 'Sell Boulstred. In which name, I call
Up so much truth, as could I it pursue
Might make the Fable of Good Women true.
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