Note 236:A — Chapter VII
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The following, from Wycombe Church, is an agreeable variation:
"Here lies one, whose rest Gives me a restless life, Because I've lost a good And virtuous wife."
In Milton Abbot Church we find a memorial to one Bartholomew Doidge and Joan, his wife. The wife was buried on the 1st of February 1681, and the husband on the 12th, and the inscription goes on to say:
"She first deceased: he a little tried To live without her, liked it not, and died."