or BURTON CONSTABLE.                                  /

which sickness and death defac'd, or rather cover'd with
a vail to shine at the hour of generall appearance with a
fresher verdure.

But what does this conduce to her advantage, for as
gold is extracted from earth, and is not earth, so is tinn
from silver, and is not silver; what did it empeatch
Abraham to descend from Thare, a worshipper of idols, or
avail Cam ? a graft is known by its own fruit, and if the
fruit be, good none will question the stock. I confess I
should here lose myself in a dark laborynth if I had not
a skihull guide, and more than a Theseus to unfold
Ariadnes's clew. For as St. Ambrose tells me, there is
no prerogative in succession or kindred " nulla in succes-
sione prerogativa ;'* so soys the same author **hocboni
habet nobilitas, ut ab iis a quibus ducunt genus, ducant
ttiam exemplum ;" this good is to be ascribed to nobiUty
and stemm of progenitors, that children from them may
learn to Hve well, by whom they first began to hve, and
precepts wholesome or noxious imbib'd in youth, prove
b^custome a second nature to old age.
J^This creature was so Uvely a piece of her mother, (for
that sex universally predominates in female issue) in
stature, voice, proportion, comeliness, and all other linea¬
ments drawn by the curious pencill of nature, that they
were scarcely by anj^thing but age distinguishable: so
that to form a new description of the daughter were to
repeat my precedent of the mother. But her best inherit¬
ance or part was that which neither wrinckles could
blemish, sickness ruin, or death dispoil her off; to witt,
her pious moth(3rs excellent virtues; her constancy in re¬
ligion, for which, like gold refined in the furnace, shee
suffered a long imprisonment,/ Hberality to good uses,
zeal of God's honour, to the emulation of Catholicks and
confusion of Hereticks; ever permitting, in times of great¬
est danger, free access to her chappell; finally, an exact

/ Margaret, lady Constable, was long imprisoned for the Catholic   h
Faith.—i?. Z.                                                                      ,..__[