—Dryden.

May Nineteenth

How blessings brighten as they take their flight!

—Young.

May Twentieth

From thousands of our undone widows, one may derive some wit.

—Thomas Middleton.

May Twenty-first

For I have buried three husbands beside this man; and now I am no’ sure of no nother husband; and therefore ye may be sure I have great cause to be sad and heavy.

—Hazlitt.