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[In upper right corner: 103] [?]owny Epitaph was lately erected under [illegible] window in the Cathedral Church of Lincoln

intomb'd Dame Harriot, Daughter of [?]nt General Churchill, wife in her first [illegible] to Sir Everald Falkner Knt. [illegible] to Governor Pownall. she died Feb. 6^th. [Age]d 51. her person was that of animated, [?]ating beauty [u inserted above between a and t]: with a complexion of the exquisite brilliancy, unfaded when she her understanding was of such quickness [?]each of thought, that her know ledge, she had learning, was instant and original heart, warmed with universal benevolence to highest degree of sensibility, had a ready for piety and glow'd with friendship of [illegible] a sacred and inviolate fire: her love those who were blest with it, was happiness. sentiments were correct, refined, elevated. [illegible] manners so chearful, elegant, and [?]nning amiable that while she was admired, [she?] was beloved. and while she enlightened [en?]livened, she was the delight of the world in which [illegible] lived. She was formed for life, she was [p]repared for death, which being a gentle [illegible] to [i?]mmortaility, she lives where life is real.