392 his owne children. And indeed she was worthy of it, applying herselfe with such humble dutifullnesse and kindnesse to repaire her fault, and to please him in all the things he delighted in, that he was ravisht with the ioy of her, who lov'd the place not as his own wife did, only because she was plac'd in it, but with a natural! affection, which encourag'd him in all the paynes he tooke to adorne it, when he had one to leave it to that would esteeme it. She was besides naturaliz' cl into his house and interests, as if she had had no other regard in the world ; she was pious and chearefull, liberall and thrifty, complaisant and kind to all the famely, and the freest from · bumor of any woman, loving home, without melancholly or sullenesse, observant of ber father and mother, not with regrett, but with delight, and the most submissive, affectionate wife, that ever was: but she, and all the ioy of her sweete, saint-like conversation,. ended in a lamented grave, about a yeare a(ter her marriage, when she died in childbirth, and left the sweetest babe behind her that ever was beheld, whose face promist all its mother's graces, but death within eight weeks after her birth ravisht this sweete blossomc, whose fall open'd the fresh wounds of sorrow for her mother, thus doubly lost. While the. mother liv'd, which was ten days after her delivery, the collonell and his wife employ'd all imaginable paynes · and cares for her recovery, whereof they had often hopes, but in the end all in vaine; she died, and left the whole house in very sensible afliction, which continued upon the collonel and his wife till new stroakes awakened them out of the sillent sorrow of this funeral]. Her husband having no ioy in the world after she was gone, some months shut ·himselfe up with his griefe in his chamber, out of which he was hardly pe1•swaded to goe, and when he did, every place about home so much renew'd the remembrance of her, he could not think of but with deepe afliction, that being invited by his friends abroad to divert his melancholly; he grew a little out of love with home, x Mr. Thomas Hutcbinson did not marry again, but died without issue .
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