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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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1651
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much displeased as could be expected of a little maiden of the best nature and education And indeed at the very first aspect one might readily read this qualitie in her face her ordinary countenance holding forth a most svveet and a most perfect modestie IX But the aforesaid coldnes of her temper did no vvayes hinder her of beeing most fervent in her affectioÌ„ tovvards me nor of bearing me so sinâ—ere and so intire a love as I beleeve to be equalled but by fevv vvives and sure I am it can be exceeded by none This made her to desire to have verie much of my coÌ„panie never beeing better pleased than vvhen she had me neere her to be vvonderfull sollicitous in procuring me all manner of contentment and preventing all causes of displeasure to comply vvith my inclinations and applaud my resolutions except she savv or apprehended some great cause to the contrary vvhich then verie svveetlie and prudentlie she vvould lay open to me and indeavour to the utmost of her povver to further and effect them and to be so vvonderfull tender of me that if anie the least thing ailed me and if but my finger aked she vvas all out of order and could not quiet her selfe till she knevv 〈◊〉 vvas better vvith me And not onelie at other times it vvas so vvith her but even vvhen she vvas nothing vvell herselfe and vvhen she vvas troubled vvith anie paine or accident vvhat-ever the feeling vvhere-off could not in the least vvise hinder that her tendernes over me vvhich made me verie vvarie at all times hovv I did complaine before her of anie slight matter for feare of disquieting her more than the matter vvas vvorth And in that sicknes vvherevvith it pleased God to visit me in the beginning of the yeare 1646. the onelie that I had since vvee vvere married together and vvhich by reason of a relapse Kept mâ— betvvixt tvvo ana throâ— vveeks in my bed shâ— vvas so assiduous abouâ— me tooke so much paines vvith me although she vvas then somâ— months gone vvith chilâ— and needed not to have done anie thing herselfe vvee having more servants than one about us and did so lay my case to heart as none but a most excellent vvife vvould have done the same And vvithall she used so much discretion and circumspection that as oft as her grief out of the apprehension of my danger came to that height that she could no longer keep it in but that she must needs vent it in teares and sobs vvhich befell her verie often she vvould be sure to retire to a corner vvhere I should neither see nor heare her for feare of aggravating my indisposition by her grieving X. And as to me so tâ— her children her affectioâ— vvas vvonderfull greatâ— and tender vvhich madâ— her take her principalâ— delight in them vvhileâ— she injoyed them and heavilie to mourne after them vvhen the Lord took them from us as he did the second beeing a boy on the 15. of May 1649. beeing then seaven months old and the eldest vvhich vvas a girle on the second of October 1647. she then beeing come to the age of three yeares compleatlie and the losse of this child did not onelie afflict her extreamlie for the present as that of the boy did too but for a greate vvhile and many months after during all vvhich time she shed abundance of teares for her Indeed the girle vvas a most lovelie one beeing of most exquisite features and of a most pure complexion and therebesides vvhich vvas much more to be valued and accordinglie valued by the mother there appeared in her as much as could appeare in that tender age not onelie a vvonderfull good vvit but all the signes of a svveet disposition of mind and of a good and vertuous nature vvhereby she had got the love of all that knevv her so as it vvas no vvonder if the Mothers heart vvas extreamlie set upon her And the Lord having given a good share of the same advantages both of bodie and of mind to our last girle too the mothers affection ever guided as much by iudgement as by instinct vvas not onelie as excessive to her as it had been to the other but she took yet greater joy and contentment in her than she had done in the former Because that the indovvments of the mind the chief object of the Mothers affection shevved forth themselves more manifestlie and fullie in her than they had done iâ— our eldest girle forasmuch as she vvas comâ— to some greater ripenâ— of age than the other had lived unto beeing foure yeares and a halfe old vvhen the Mother dyed And my Love finding every day more and more that besides the svveetnes of her nature free from all vicious and perverse inclinations some or other vvhere-off doe appeare in most children a greate flexibilitie tovvards all good instructions and an extraordinary avvfulnes of all corrections so as a vvord and a threate vvould doâ— more vvith her thaâ— blovves vvith others shâ— vvas also verie capable and vvithall not oneliâ— vvilling but greatlie desirous of learning anâ— consequentlie most suâ—ceptible of all good education she took so greaâ— a felicitie in her that sâ— she had but the chilâ— neere her she nevâ—â— found the misse of aniâ— other companie vvhicâ— othervvise her natuâ—â— beeing verie sociable she loved vvonderfull vvell And as before so much more during the time that she altogether Kept her chamber as she did for the space of seaven vveeks ever since that first accident on the first of March she spent the greatest part of her time vvith her partlie in teaching her to pray and making her repeate often the Lords prayer and severall other good prayers as likevvise the Creed and the Commandements partlie 〈◊〉 catechising her about thâ— principall points of christian Religion making her every day repeaâ— vvhat she had learned bâ—fore vvith some neâ— additions still from timâ— time partlie in teachinâ— her the beginnings 〈◊〉 reading vvhich she diâ— vvith so much succes 〈◊〉 in a fevv vveeks the chiâ—â— had perfectlie learned 〈◊〉 her letters and the spâ—â—ling of all single syllablâ—â— vvith good progreâ—â— tovvards the spelling of the more compounded ones and of some vvhole vvords and lastlie in ansvvering the childs questions most of vvhich vvere vvonderfull prettie and vvittie and in taKing all occasions both by them and othervvise too of begetting and confirming in her the knovvledge and love of vertue pietie and civilitie And finding all the paines vvhich she took vvith the child vvonderfull effectuallâ— that did so inflame hâ—â— affection tovvards hâ—â— more and more anâ— adde so much to thâ— greate pleasure and haâ—pynes vvhich she shapeâ— unto herselfe in havinâ— her neere her as sâ—â— vvould needs dresse thâ— child every morning heâ—selfe and spend an houâ— or tvvo about it insteâ— of letting one of hâ— maids doe it as they usâ— to doe vvhen the chiâ—â— vvas younger yet aâ—â— she vvould never have lost her out of her sight if she vvould have looked onelie