Who lost, none would gainsay, a good chaste spouse:

Yet such things must be borne, though hard to bear.

"So, take this tribute of adornment, deep

In the earth let it descend along with her!

Behooves we treat the body with respect

—Of one who died, at least, to save thy life,

Kept me from being childless, nor allowed

That I, bereft of thee, should peak and pine

In melancholy age! she, for the sex,

All of her sisters, put in evidence,