An EPITAPH On my dear and ever honoured Mother Mrs Dorothy Dudley, who deceased Decemb 27 1643 a

A worthy Matron of unspotted life,

A loving Mother and obedient wife,

A friendly Neighbor, pitiful to poor,

Whom oft she fed, and clothed with her store;

To Servants wisely aweful, but yet kind,

And as they did, so they reward did find:

A true Instructer of her Family,

The which she ordered with dexterity.

The publick meetings ever did frequent,

And in her Closet constant hours she spent;

Religious in all her words and wayes,

Preparing still for death, till end of dayes:

Of all her Children, Children, liv'd to see,

Then dying, left a blessed memory.