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«îon of fex : there ftiould be reared the ftatues of 

 thofe who, with all the charms of beauty, prefer- 

 red a laborious and obfcure life, to the vain de- 

 lights of the World; of matrons who re-eftabliflied 

 order in a deranged family ; who, faithful to the 

 memory of a hufband, frequently chargeable with 

 infidelity, preferved inviolate the conjugal vow, 

 even after death had cancelled the obligation, and 

 devoted youth to the education of the dear pledges 

 of an union now no more : and, finally, the vene- 

 rable effigies of thofe who attained the higheft 

 pinnacle of diflinâiion, by the very obfcurity of 

 their virtues. Thither (bould be tranfported the 

 tomb of a Lady of Lamoignon, from the poor 

 cHurch of Saint Giles, where it remains unno- 

 ticed ; it's affedling epitaph w^ould render it flill 

 more worthy of occupying this honourable flation, 

 than the chifel of Girardon, whofe mafter-piece it 

 is : in it we read that a defign had been enter- 

 tained to bury her body in aaother place ; but the 

 poor of the parifh, to whom fhe was a mother all 

 her life long, carried it off by force, and depofited 

 it in their church : they themfelves would, un- 

 doubtedly, tranfport the remains of their benefac- 

 trefs, and refort to this hallowed fpor, to difplay 

 them to the public veneration. 



Hie manus ob Patriam, pugnando vulnera paffi j 

 Quique Sacerdotes cafti, Hum vita manebat ; 

 Çî^iiqpe pii Vates, & Phxsbo digna locuti ; 



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