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Her wedding ring, when she became his wife, was, after her death, preserved by him, as long as he lived, with an affectionate care, in a little round wooden box, in the inside of which he pasted a slip of paper, thus inscribed by him in fair characters, as follows: 'Eheu! Eliz. Johnson Nupta Jul. 9 1736, Mortua, eheu! Mart. 17 1752. After his death, Mr.
It is equally certain, however, upon the concurring evidence of independent writers, that this connection had an oracular sanction not to say, suggestion; a circumstance which was long remembered, and was afterwards noticed by the Christian poet Prudentius: "Idque Deum sortes et Apollinis antra dederunt Consilium: nunquam melius nam caedere taedas Responsum est, quam cum praegnans nova nupta jugatur."
In this piece he treats the mournful occasion of the bride's death with mysterious solemnity. The verses bear this title, "On the unexpected death of the virtuous Lady Mrs. Janet Dalrymple, Lady Baldoon, younger," and afford us the precise dates of the catastrophe, which could not otherwise have been easily ascertained. "Nupta August 12. Domum Ducta August 24. Obiit September 12. Sepult.