Them with new paines, and giues you this content 60 To see your soule an Innocent, hath suffred, And vp to heauen before your eyes be offred: Your like we in a burning Glasse may see, When the Sunnes rayes therein contracted be Bent on some obiect, which is purely white, We finde that colour doth dispierce the light, And stands vntainted: but if it hath got Some little sully; or the least small spot, Then it soon fiers it; so you still remaine Free, because in you they can finde no staine. 70 God doth not loue them least, on whom he layes The great'st afflictions; but that he will praise Himselfe most in them, and will make them fit, Near'st to himselfe who is the Lambe to sit: For by that touch, like perfect gold he tries them, Who are not his, vntill the world denies them. And your example may work such effect, That it may be the beginning of a Sect Of patient women; and that many a day All Husbands may for you their Founder pray. 80 Nor is to me your Innocence the lesse, In that I see you striue not to suppresse Their barbarous malice; but your noble heart Prepar'd to act so difficult a part, With vnremoued constancie is still The same it was, that of your proper ill, The effect proceeds from your owne selfe the cause, Like some iust Prince, who to establish lawes, Suffers the breach at his best lou'd to strike, To learne the vulgar to endure the like. 90 You are a Martir thus, nor can you be Lesse to the world so valued by me: If as you haue begun, you still perseuer Be euer good, that I may loue you euer. An Elegie vpon the death of the Lady PENELOPE CLIFTON