Beverstone
In memory of Katherine Purye, who died Dec. 1, 1604.
Ao 1604.
Dece 1. Ætat. 67.
Quæ defuncta jacet saxo tumulata sub illo
Bis Cathara, haud ficto nomine, dicta fuit.
Nomen utrumque sonat mundam, puramque piamq
Et vere nomen quod referebat, erat,
Nam puram puro degebat pectore vitam,
Pura fuit mundo, nunc mage pura Deo.—
Πάντα καζαρα τοις καζαραις
Omnia pura puris,
Tit. 1. ver. 15.
She whom this stone doth quietly immure
In no feign’d way had twice the name of Pure:
Pure, pious, clean, each name did signify,
And truly was she what those names imply;
For in pure paths, while yet she lived, she trod;
Pure was she in this world, and now more pure with God.