The queen of the milk-women; or, An elegy occasion'd by the death of Mrs. E. G. Who departed this life on Thursday morning October 6th. 1698. As allso a fuil account how she lies in state, and threescore milk-women in mourning for her. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B04965 of text R182307 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing Q154A). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 3 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 B04965 Wing Q154A ESTC R182307 52614865 ocm 52614865 176050 2240896919

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. B04965) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 176050) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English Books, 1641-1700 ; 2760:12) The queen of the milk-women; or, An elegy occasion'd by the death of Mrs. E. G. Who departed this life on Thursday morning October 6th. 1698. As allso a fuil account how she lies in state, and threescore milk-women in mourning for her. 1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill. s.n., [S.l. : 1698] Caption title. Mourning border; contains one illustration. Imperfect: faded, with much loss of text. Reproduction of original in: National Library of Scotland. eng Elegiac poetry, English -- Scotland -- Early works to 1800. Broadsides -- Scotland -- 17th century. eebo The queen of the milk-women; or, An elegy occasion'd by the death of, Mrs. E. G. who departed this life on Thursday morning October 6th. 1698. As alls [no entry] 1698 1 447 38 0 0 0 0 0 850.11 F The rate of 850.11 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the F category of texts with 100 or more defects per 10,000 words. 2008-09 Assigned for keying and markup 2008-11 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2009-01 Sampled and proofread 2009-01 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2009-02 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
THE Queen of the Milk-women ; OR , AN ELEGY Occasion'd by the Death of , Mrs. E. G. Who departed this life on 〈◊〉 Morning October 6th 1698. As allso a full and true Account how she 〈…〉 Sta 〈…〉 〈◊〉 Threescore Milk-women in Mourning for her .

COme you Lasses and Maids , Who pursue Milking Trades , With your Pail : on your Heads strait appear ▪ Whilst I mourn the sad fall , Of the Cheif of you All , And the best too as much as 〈…〉 She 's Dead , let each pour Or her Corps a Milk shower , To preserve and to moisten 〈…〉 That a Person so just May'nt too soon 〈◊〉 to Dust , Or too 〈…〉 Vermin a Prey Ah! how when all 〈◊〉 She grac'd those who survive , Who admir'd at the Qualities in 〈…〉 How She look'd like a 〈…〉 When She Danc'd upon 〈…〉 With her Green 〈…〉 But her Maidens may boas● Of her Charity most , And her goodness in g 〈…〉 〈◊〉 Liquor ; For Lord how She 'd Swill , And give each of 'm her 〈◊〉 To make 'em mo●● sp●●● 〈…〉 Both Distiller and Host , May lament that , she 's 〈…〉 For she was their 〈◊〉 certain 〈…〉 And a B●●n Companion , As chearful as any one Whilst the Quartern and Bottle did 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 had other good vertu●s 〈◊〉 ●hich she show'd to all parties , ●●ot dashing her n●w M●lk with water , And she took as great pleasure In f 〈…〉 and full Measure . As the rest of her Trade do in 〈◊〉 . Th 〈…〉 uncommon deserts , May ●ake all True Hearts . To conclude that she dy'd well and Godly , For if she had not , Took up her full Pot , Her death would have look'd very Odly . But now Threescore trapes , Are in black Cloth , and Crapes , As an Argument that she dy'd well . I mean well to pass , For wise man nor Ass , Any more of her Exit can ●●ll . She serv'd Queen , her Mistress late of , and in distress , And I must needs say this to her Honour , Tho' Her Mony was good , As no doubt a Queen's shou'd She had mony a fair Coach-Wheel upon her As she serv'd High and Great , 〈◊〉 Lies now in State , By Rich and by Poor to be seen , With Milk she supply'd The Queen Dowager's Bride , And of Milk-Women she Dy'd the Queen .