DEVOUT

EXERCISES

OF

THE HEART,

IN MEDITATION AND SOLILOQUY, PRAYER

AND PRAISE.

BY

The late pious and ingenious

MRS. ELIZABETH ROWE.

TO WHICH ARE PREFIXED

MEMOIRS of the AUTHOR,

WITH A PORTRAIT.

Reviewed and published, at her request,

BY I. WATTS, D. D.

ALCESTER:

Printed by R. Heming, for J. Heming, Stourbridge.

1809.

188. ¿.

107.

OF

THE LATE MRS. ROWE.

THIS extraordinary female, of whom the following is a slight sketch, was born at Ilchester, in Somersetshire, September 11,

1674.

It is recorded of her, that, at twelve years of age, she began to write poetry; and she as early discovered a taste to the sister art of painting; for when she had scarcely strength or steadiness of hand to guide the pencil she would squeeze out the juice of herbs to serve her instead of colours; this never ceased to be her amusement, at various intervals, until her death.

Her poetical performances, composed before she arrived at the age of twenty, introduced her to a no