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Translated as… Queen Elizabeth had reigned over the British for twenty years and more, worthy of the greatest praise, when on the 11th day of December, a premature death carried off John Copstone, a young man, in the prime of life, for he was scarcely twenty eight years old. Still he was to his father foot, ear and eye. He was his father's sole comfort and only hope. But why should we sinners lament the death
of the just, since it is certain that the pious pass away into the joys of heaven ? For death does not destroy them, but may be for them a passage into a better life where they live for ever. In their number we will regard thee, O Copstone