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The character of a trulie vertuous and pious woman as it hath been acted by Mistris Margaret Dungan (vvife to Doctor Arnold Boate) in the constant course of her whole life, which she finished at Paris, 17 Aprilis 1651.
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Boate, Arnold, 1600?-1653?
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THE CHARACTER OF A TRVLIE VERTVOVS AND PIOVS VVOMAN AS IT HATH BEEN ACTED BY MISTRIS MARGARET DVNGAN VVIFE TO DOCTOR ARNOLD BOATE In the constant course of her Whole life Which she finished at Paris 17. Aprilis 1651. PARIS Printed by STE. MAVCROY for the Authour 1651. TO THE RIGHT REVEREND FATHER IN GOD THOMAS SINSERF Lord Bishop Gallovvay MAy it please your Lordship Having perpetually before my eyes the aymable and commendable qualities of my most lovelie and most beloved consort of vvhom it pleased God latelie to deprive me in the prime of her age to my unspeakable grief and irreparable discomfort and having found some consolation in reducing in vvriting part of vvhat my memorie did suggest unto me of her for to serve me insteed of a pourtrait upon vvhich I might often passe my vieuvv thereby in some sort to mitigate the excesse of my tormenting sadnes much better than others in the like case use to doe vvith lesse livelie and more corporeall representations I thought good vvhat I had so set dovvn at first vvith no other intention than to remaine vvith myselfe and to serve onelie for mine ovvn use and consolation to publish the same unto the vvorld partlie for to acquit vvhat is due to her vertues deserving a farre statelier monument and principallie for the advantage and edification of others hoping that her example may serve as a povverfull motif vvhereby many vvilbe stirred up to the practise of true vertue and pietie in the same manner as these lines free from all amplifications and rhetoricall ornaments and consisting of a bare and plaine narration vvithout all artifice vvill hold forth to have been done by her And as all those vvho have knovvn her can beare me vvitnesse that I have said nothing her but the naKed truth so in particular your Lordship vvho having lodged vvith us under the same roof and come to the same board vvith us for the space of vvell neere three yeares have seen in her conversation all those qualities verified vvhich here I relate of her vvhich hath incouraged me to dedicate these lines unto your Lordship thereby to put them past all contradiction vvith such as have not at all been acquainted vvith her and vvho upon my bare record might coÌ„ceive that my pen had not been so much guided by unbiassed truth as by an over-favourable and pre-occupated affection And forasmuch as some passages of this treatise vvill receive some light by the knovvledge of the accident that hath taken her avvay and of the manner that it made an end of her it vvill be good to give a compendious relation of the same before I come to the maine matter Having been married to me at Dublin on christmas day in the yeare of our Lord 1642. and brought me three children the youngest vvhere-of beeing a girle borne here in Paris on the 13. of September 1646. is onelie alive she miscarried last yeare on the 27. of April vvithout anie evident cause and having conceived again about the 12. â— 14. of August she vventon happilie till the first of March vvithout anie other acommoditie than that she vvas excessive big more than vvith anie former child she had been verie un-able to vvalke or stirre and subject to frequent faintings for vvhich last accident having been let blood in the arme on the 19. of November she vvas some vveeks the better for it For the rest she had her health vvonderfull vvell and a farre better appetite than she had had vvith anie of her former children the vvhich did so fill her veines as it caused the aforesaid excessive bignes and nature beeing overburdened vvith blood discharged itselfe on the first of March in the evening of a suddain and vvithout anie the least preceding commotion of mind or bodie of part of it in that impetuous manner as in the space of lesse than halfe an houre she lost more than tvvo â—ound and hauing continued to loose some more blood for the space of an houre longer and begun to bleed afresh the next morning she had nine ounces of blood dravvâ—e from her out of her right arme vvhich presentlie stayed her bleeding But she had another fit the 13. of March though nothing so copious as the first and â— third on the 22. of the same month much more moderate yet and such vvas also the fourth vvhich came on the first of April The tenth of April she had a fifth shed much vvhat of the same quantitie as the second and the 12. of April at night of sixth a verie greate one the blood for a greate vvhile running from her iust like a spiggot The 15. of the same month beeing saturday she had a seaventh fit farre more furious than any of the former so as in lesse than halfe an houres time she lost 10. or 12. pound of blood continuing also to bleed some vvhat for tvvo or three houres after by the end vvhere-off the bleeding vvas stanched she hauing been let blood in the arme and manie good remedies given her invvardlie and applied outvvardlie by me and the midvvife vvith the joint advice of Doctor Sarrasin an ancient and famous practioner Yet she had another little shed the same day about tenne of the clock at night a second about the same houre the next morning beeing sunday and a third at one the clock in the afternoon and from that time the blood having stayed on her till the next day monday the 17. of April at seaven a clock at night then again notvvhitstanding a greate manie of most excellent remedies both outvvard and invvard that had been administred to her eversince saturday at noon during vvhich time also she had not stirred out of her bed and been plied vvith such exquisite nourishments as are fitting and usuall in the like cases the blood burst dovvn in as greate an abundance as ever vvhereby her veines so much emptied alreadie hauing been utterlie exhausted it so abated her strength as casting her from one fainting fit into another vvithout anie thorough throvvs for to bring-on labour but onelie some vveak beginnings of it to the contrary of vvhat the midvvife vvith us had hoped and expected she never came to herselfe again but gave up her ghoste some three houres after the beginning of this last fit and about tenne of the clock at night having kept her sences till vvithin a quarter of an houre afore she died and her speech till vvithin lesse than halfe an houre And this last halfe houre she vvas vvonderfull calme and quiet vvhere-as for the space of somevvhat more than halfe an houre before she had grievouslie tossed her heart beeing loath to yeeld to the approches of death because not at all abated by anie sicknes For after every one of those sheds that she had had from the beginning even after that late and grievous one on saturday and after the subsequent ones on sunday she did still recover herselfe again vvithin a fevv houres and vvould be very heartie eating her
did not onelie detest all Kind of lyes especiallie such as vvere any vvayes malicious or prejudiciall to others and tended to the detorting and depraving of their sayings or actions but vvas vvonderfull exact in keeping her vvord and in making good her promises though made â—â—ver so cursorilie or supâ—â—ficiallie and that even the smallest matters vvell as in those of gâ—â—â—ter moment For vvas fullie persvvadâ—â— that people are as mâ— bound both in honâ—â— and in conscience to â—complish a bare and â—luntary promise as aâ—â— formall contract conâ—med vvith an oath 〈◊〉 vvith all other bindâ—â—g solemnities And as 〈◊〉 ever conformed her oâ—â— practice there-unto so she laboured to induce all others in vvhom she had anie interest to doe the same and rather to suffer any inconvenience or losse than to find-out a pretext of going from their vvord representing unto them as unto herselfe that one ought to promise nothing inconsideratelie but to thinK vvell of it before one ingage ones selfe but having once passed ones vvord that then there remaineth nothing else but performance if thâ— matter promised be lavvfull and possible Anâ— as in all other parts of hâ— life so in this too sâ—â— had a singular care â— vvalking by that goldâ— rule to deale so vviâ—â— others as she did desâ—â—â— to be dealt vvithall hâ—â—selfe Love to truâ—â—â— made her also verie iâ—â— partiall not onelie in 〈◊〉 behalfe of strangers 〈◊〉 euen of herselfe and â—f all her neerest relatioâ—â— judging of all vvith the same unbiassed equitie and equalitie both in questions of interest and of concernment and in those concerning the nature of actions and of qualificatioÌ„s of the mind and of the bodie XXI She vvas extreamlie fearefull of her nature insomuch as she vvould figure unto herselfe and appreheÌ„d dangers vvhere there vvas none at all especiallie upon the vvater and not onelie upoâ— the sea vvhere all thingâ— at the best appeared veriâ— terrible unto her buâ— upon the verie rivers sâ— as it vvas death to her 〈◊〉 London to come into boate though the vvatâ— vvas never so calme aâ— even here at Paris in thoâ— boats used upon the Seiâ— incomparablie biggâ— and surer than those 〈◊〉 the Thames she thougâ— herselfe every jot as unâ—fe and though she vvoâ— novv and then be persvâ—ded vvith much adoe to goe by vvater to Charenton or to Chaliot yet her mind vvas at no ease nor quiet as long as she vvas upon the river even in the fairest and stillest vveather Yet grace and reason did so oversvvay this her naturall timourousnes as notvvhitstanding the greate excesse of it there vvas nothing so terrible but she could resolve to undergoe it either for the maintaining of a good cause or anie other vvay called tâ— it by God and nothinâ— so hazardous but sâ—â— could be induced to 〈◊〉 upon good grounds anâ— at the appearance of anâ— necessitie or greate coâ—veniencie This vvas tâ—â— reason that she vvho 〈◊〉 trembled and quaked 〈◊〉 the least apprehension 〈◊〉 death and at the lâ— shaddovv of anie dangâ— though but an imagiâ—â—rie one thorough the â—cret and suddain moriâ—â—â— of her naturall infirmâ— in that particular could in a setled mind think on death and that under anie shape vvith as much quietnes of mind and undauntednes as more could not be expected of a most valourous vvarriour or of a man consummate in courageous vvisdom And that this vvas not a delusion hath vvell appeared by the effect she having looked death in the face vvithout beeing in the least manner appalled at it during this last period of heâ— life and ever since thosâ— greate and frequent losseâ— of blood vvhich at lengtâ— have carried her avvay gave her just cause tâ— conceive herselfe in daâ—ger of it as she did to thâ— full from the beginningâ— For although that aftâ— every fit except the verâ— last of all she came stâ— verie vvell to herselâ— again as hath been moâ— at full declared at tâ— entrance of this treatiâ— yet ever since the first 〈◊〉 them her mind gave her that she vvould not out-live them but that assuredlie they vvould make an end of her VVherefore for to prepare me for her death vvhich she knevv vvould be most grievous to me according to the excessive love I bore her she vvould often talKe of it not onelie about the time of those fits and vvhen she vvas nevvlie come out of them but even at other times and farre from them And althougâ— every foot I vvould faiâ— have hindered her of spâ—king of it the thougâ— of loosing her beeing 〈◊〉 unsupportable to me 〈◊〉 I could not indure thâ— least mention of it yâ— she vvould still goe oâ— notvvhitstanding all nâ— opposition and frequeâ— interruptions telling 〈◊〉 that it vvas good alvvayâ— to think of the vvorâ— and that it vvould be â—ver the more for talKiâ— of it Novv the sumâ— of those her discourses tending ever to the same purpose vvas That she nothing at all apprehended death but vvas most vvilling to undergoe it if it pleased God so to dispose of her finding nothing in it to trouble her but the thought of the sorrovv vvhich that separation vvould cause unto me beseeching me if so it fell out to use my vvhole strength for to hinder me from succombing under it and for to make me beare that affâ—â—ction patientlie and 〈◊〉 make this her counsâ— sink the deeper into 〈◊〉 mind she vvould maâ—â— use as of other considâ—rations so of that of oâ— girle vvhose losse vvouâ— be too greate if vvith 〈◊〉 mother she should alâ— come to loose her fathâ— and that in a straâ—â—â— countrie farre from 〈◊〉 her friends and kindrâ— vvherefore I ought 〈◊〉 doe all I could for to pâ—â—serve me for her and tâ—â—t vvas all she ever said of her to me on that occasion For knovving full vvell that next to herselfe I loved her most perfectlie as much as a child can be beloved by a father she knew it superfluous to talke to me of beeing carefull and tender of her and of making much of her And these same things of her finding nothing in her death to trouble her but the grief it vvould cause unto me vvith the vvonted adjurations that I vvould strive to moderate it for Gods sake anâ— for her sake and to preserve myselfe for our giâ—le she repeated to me sâ—verall times in that shoâ— space that vvas betvviâ— her last fit and her enâ— the abundance of tearâ— vvhich her imminent dâ—â—ger frequent faintinâ— and greate paines and tâ— sings drevv from 〈◊〉 giuing her occasion to 〈◊〉 nevv that counsell so â—â—t unto me vvhere-off â—â—e savv I had so much 〈◊〉 alreadie and vvould have much more shortlie after And she continued to expresse this christian resolution accoÌ„panied vvith so much tendernes of love tovvards me of not apprehending death at all in her ovvn regard but onelie in mine to the verie last as long as she vvas able to expresse anie thing and vvhen that she vvas novv at the verie point of death and had it even