Poor Sarah Dobson

Epitaph written by Sarah Dobson, wife of John Dobson, to be put on her tombstone after her decease:

I now have fallen asleep—my troubles gone,
For while on earth, I had full many a one,
When I get up again—as Parson says,
I hope that I shall see some better days.

If Husband he should make a second suit
His second wife will find that he’s a brute.

He often made my poor sad heart to sigh,
And often made me weep from one poor eye,
The other he knocked out by a violent blow,
As all my Kinsfolk and my Neighbours know.

I hope he will not serve his next rib so,
But if he should, will put the two together,
And through them stare while Satan tans his leather.