| Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. 1919. The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900. |
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| William Cartwright. 1611–1643 |
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333. On a Virtuous Young Gentlewoman
that died suddenly |
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| SHE who to Heaven more Heaven doth annex, | |
| Whose lowest thought was above all our sex, | |
| Accounted nothing death but t' be reprieved, | |
| And died as free from sickness as she lived. | |
| Others are dragg'd away, or must be driven, | 5 |
| She only saw her time and stept to Heaven; | |
| Where seraphims view all her glories o'er, | |
| As one return'd that had been there before. | |
| For while she did this lower world adorn, | |
| Her body seem'd rather assumed than born; | 10 |
| So rarified, advanced, so pure and whole, | |
| That body might have been another's soul; | |
| And equally a miracle it were | |
| That she could die, or that she could live here. | |
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