Note 126 — 535.
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Charles James Fox married Elizabeth Bridget Cane, otherwise Mrs. Armitstead, at Wyton, Huntingdonshire, on September 28, 1795. She survived her husband. In 1799, on his fiftieth birthday (January 24), Fox addressed to her the following lines:—
"Of years I have now half a century past, And none of the fifty so blessed as the last. How it happens my troubles thus daily should cease, And my happiness thus with my years should increase, This defiance of nature's more general laws You alone can explain, who alone are the cause."