They lived in sin, and died in pain,
And the Devil got his dues! (Dews.)
A lady wrote with a diamond on a pane of glass,—
God did at first make man upright; but he—
To which a gentleman added,—
Most surely had continued so; but she—
A lady wrote upon a window some verses, intimating her design of never marrying. A gentleman wrote the following lines underneath:—
The lady whose resolve these words betoken,
Wrote them on glass, to show it may be broken.
Sir Walter Raleigh having written on a window,—