He first deceas’d; She for a little tri’d
To live without him: lik’d it not, and di’d.

Henry Wotton (1568-1639) English author, diplomat, politician
“Upon the Death of Sir Albertus Moreton’s Wife” (1651)
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Recorded in his Reliquiae Wottonianae (1672).

 
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