He then assented to a last request,

And by the meeting-window let her rest;

And on her stone the sacred text was seen,

Which had her comfort in departing been.

Dighton with joy beheld his trade advance,

Yet seldom published, loth to trust to chance:

Then wed a doctor’s sister - poor indeed,

But skill’d in works her husband could not read;

Who, if he wish’d new ways of wealth to seek,

Could make her half-crown pamphlet in a week: