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--- "The Church Portrait Journal, 1876, page 87 --- seen on Google Books:
To the precious memory of that truly virtuous gentellwoman Mrs. Mary Sparke, Daughter of Jonathan Sparke, Esq., of this town, who departed this life the 30th day of December, anno domini, 1665.
An odd punning epitaph within is worthy of note. It is to the memory of one "Mrs. Mary Sparke," whose light was quenched in 1665:---
"Life's but a Sparke, a weake euncertaine breath,
No sooner kindled bu puft out by Death.
Such was my Name, my frame, my fate, yet I,
Am ftill a living Sparke, though thus I dye,
And fhine in Heaven's orbe, a Star most bright,
Though Death on Earth fo foone Eclipst my light."
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Bef 1641 - 1665 (> 24 years)
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