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260 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,