In this piece he treats the mournful occasion of the bride's death with mysterious solemnity.
The verses bear this title, "On the unexpected death of the virtuous Lady Mrs.Janet Dalrymple, Lady Baldoon, younger," and afford us the precise dates of the catastrophe, which could not otherwise have been easily ascertained.

"Nupta August 12.

Domum Ducta August 24.

Obiit September 12.Sepult.September 30, 1669." The form of the elegy is a dialogue betwixt a passenger and a domestic servant.

The first, recollecting that he had passed that way lately, and seen all around enlivened by the appearances of mirth and festivity, is desirous to know what had changed so gay a scene into mourning.