You’ve then his character, for such was he.
A similar epitaph may be found in Torrington churchyard, Devon:—
She was—but words are wanting to say what.
Think what a woman should be—she was that.
Which provoked the following reply:—
A woman should be both a wife and mother,
But Jenny Jones was neither one nor t’other.
AT GRIMSTEAD, ESSEX.
A wife so true, there are but few,
And difficult to find;