Here lies my wife; there let her lie;
She is at rest—and so am I.
We do not suppose that this was ever engraved on a tombstone, either in French or English; but the following lines are said to have been copied from a slab in an English church:—
Here lies the body of Sarah Sexton,
Who as a wife did never vex one;
We can't say that for her at the next stone.
The next specimen is also known to have appeared on a tomb in Essex:—
Here lies the man Richard,
And Mary his wife;
Their surname was Pritchard;