“ As for myself, I am drawing to a period, my thread is almost wound off, my sand is in a manner run out, and I must change this life for another: therefore when I am laid in my grave, and covered with dust, let my babes renew my memory, by being before you and when you look upon them think on me, to induce you by obligation to a greater kindness towards them, whom I leave with you as a pledge of love. ”

“ He would have proceeded, but was prevented by faintness that obliged his tongue to faulter; and Androgus being about to reply, was prevented by languishing Eugenia, who in sighs and tears breaks forth, "O brother, you are the only man living, that by your promise to support my dear babes, can give me any kind of ease even in death. O be kind then, even for his sake that made us and all the world; be a father and a mother to them when we are gone, when we shall be so far seperated as not to know what happens unto them; and many thousand blessings fall upon you ”

“ THE languishing parents finding their end to be near, and that they must exchange this for another life, the physicians having assured them by their art, that they had not long to live Pisaurus resolved to set his house in order, and thereupon sent for a notary to set down his request, as likewise his neighbours and friends, that he might take his last farewell, because they all loved him exceedingly, and his virtuous spouse for their affability, courteous behaviour, charity, and in short every thing that was good who at length came weeping about them, and much deplored the approaching loss. ”