superior kind; and if the following shall prove a warning to wives, I shall be fully compensated for my trouble.
Here lie the bodies of
Thomas Bond, and Mary his wife.
She was temperate, chaste and charitable;
But
She was proud, peevish and passionate.
She was an affectionate wife and a tender mother;
But
Her husband and child, whom she loved, seldom saw her
countenance without a disgusting frown,
Whilst she received visitors, whom she despised, with an
endearing smile.
Her behavior was discreet toward strangers;
But
imprudent in her family.
Abroad, her conduct was influenced by good-breeding;
But
at home, by ill-temper.
She was a professed enemy to flattery, and was
Seldom known to praise or commend;
But
the talents in which she principally excelled were
difference of opinion, and discovering
flaws and imperfections.
She was an admirable economist,
and, without prodigality,
dispensed plenty to every person in her family;
But
would sacrifice their eyes to a farthing candle.
She sometimes made her husband happy with her good qualities;
But
Much more frequently miserable with her many failings;
Insomuch, that, in thirty years' cohabitation, he often
lamented that, maugre her virtues,
