“This thing in life might raise some jealousy,
Here all three lie together lovingly,
But from embraces here no pleasure flows,
Alike are here all human joys and woes;
Here Sarah’s chiding John no longer hears,
And old John’s rambling Sarah no more fears;
A period’s come to all their toilsome lives,
The good man’s quiet; still are both his wives.”
Another reads as follows:—
“These lines I with watery eye
For my dear friend indite,
Who for his worth, none such on earth,
Heaven crown him with true light.
“A lawyer just, a steward most just,
As ever sate in court,
Who lived beloved, with tears interred,
This is his true report.”