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Shakspeare and His Times [Vol. 2 of 2]

Note 630:F — APPENDIX.

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Susanna Hall, the poet's favourite daughter, died on the 11th of July, 1649, aged 66, and was buried in Stratford church on the 16th of the same month. On her tomb-stone were formerly the following lines preserved by Dugdale:—

"Witty above her sexe, but that's not all, Wise to salvation was good Mistriss Hall. Something of Shakspeare was in that, but this Wholy of him with whom she's now in blisse. Then, passenger, hast ne're a teare, To weepe with her that wept with all: That wept, yet set her selfe to chere Them up with comforts cordiall. Her love shall live, her mercy spread, When thou hast ne're a teare to shed."

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