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A hopeful youth, and well beloved, Has to the earth his body bequeathed. Carnarvonshire. ABERCONWAY. Here lieth the body of Nicholas Hooker, of Conway, Gent. Who was the one and fortieth child of William Hooker, Esq.by Alice his wife, and the father of twenty-seven children. He died on the 20th day of March, 1637. CARNARVON. Dust from dust at first was taken,— Dust by dust is now forsaken; Dust in dust shall still remain, Till dust from dust shall rise again. Denbighshire. WREXHAM. Here lies a Church-warden, A choice flower in that garden, Joseph Critchley by name, Who lived in good fame Being gone to rest, Without doubt he is blest. Montgomeryshire. MONTGOMERY. All you that come our grave to see A moment pause and think, How we are in eternity And you are on the brink. BERRIEW. Farewell, my dear and loving wife, Partner of the cares of life, And you my children now adieu, Since I no more can come to you. GUILDSFIELD. Beneath this yew tree Buried would he be, Because his father, he, Planted this yew tree. Pembrokeshire. LLANVAIR. Who Ever hear on Sonday, Will practis playing at Ball, It may be be Fore Munday The devil Will Have you All. Radnorshire. RADNOR. In health and strength unthinking of my fate, Death like a thief knock’d at my Bolted gate, I hasted down to know the reason why That noise was made, Death Quickly did Reply, For thee I Call, thy Soul is now Requir’d, I trembling gaz’d and Instantly Expir’d.
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