January Twenty-ninth
Lady Catherine Swallow was a widow at eighteen, and has since buried a second husband and two coachmen.
—Addison.
January Thirtieth
Jerry, dying intestate, his relatives claim’d
While his widow most vilely his mem’ry defam’d:
“That’s no wonder,” says one, “for ’tis very well known,
Since he married, poor man, he’d no will of his own!”
—Burns.