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The following piece of Ellwood's, entitled "An Epitaph for Jeremy Ives," will serve to show that wit and drollery were sometimes found even among the proverbially sober Quakers of the seventeenth century: "Beneath this stone, depressed, doth lie The Mirror of Hypocrisy Ives, whose mercenary tongue Like a Weathercock was hung, And did this or that way play, As Advantage led the way.
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