The familiar epitaphic line,
Think what a woman should be—she was that,
finds a parallel in Shakspeare’s Venus and Adonis:—
Look what a horse should have, he did not lack,
Save a proud rider on so proud a back.
And homeless, near a thousand homes, I stood,
And, near a thousand tables, pined and wanted food.
Wordsworth, Guilt and Sorrow.
Alas for the rarity