Mrs. Margery Two-Shoes.
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get up in the Morning, ſays ſhe, and ſo conduct yourſelves, as if that Day was to be your laſt, and lie down at Night, as if you never expected to ſee this World any more. This may be done, ſays ſhe, without abating of your Chearfulneſs, for you are not to conſider Death as an Evil, but as a Convenience, as an uſeful Pilot, who is to convey you to a Place of greater Happineſs: Therefore, play my dear Children, and be merry; but be innocent and good. The good Man ſets Death at Defiance, for his Darts are only dreadful to the Wicked.
After this, ſhe permitted the Children to bury the little Dormouſe, and deſired one of them to write his Epitaph, and here it is.
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