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describes a ring thrown into the river, and restored by 

 means of a fish. 



The FISH and the BING with the EPITAPH, outside the 

 east end of STEPNEY CHURCH. 



Here lieth interred the body of DAME EEBECCA BEEEY, 



the Wife of THOMAS ELTON, of Stratford, 



Bow, 11 Gent, who departed this Life 



April 26th, 1696, aged 52. 



" COME ladies, you that wou'd appear 

 Like angels fair, come dress you here 5 

 Come, dress you at this marble stone, 

 And make that humble grace your own, 

 Which once adorn' d as fair a mind 

 As e'er yet lodg'd in woman kind. 

 So she was dress' d, whose humble life 

 Was free from pride, was free from strife, 

 Free from all envious brawls and jars, 

 Of human life the civil wars ; 

 They ne'er disturb' d her peaceful mind, 

 Which still was gentle, still was kind. 

 Her very looks, her garb, her mien 

 Disclos'd the humble soul within. 

 Trace her through every scene of life, 

 View her as widow, virgin, wife, 



Still the same she appears, 



The same in youth, the same in years, 



The same in low and high estate, 



Ne'er vex'd with this, nor mov'd with that. 



11 Stratford-le-Bow is in the Hamlet of Stepney. 



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