Digital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library
Sorrow's dry or a cure for the heart ache
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827 · September 12, 1811
Four line poem by Dryden at bottom. "Were I not resolv'd against the yoke of hapless marriage, never to be curst with second love, so fatal was the first, to this one error I might yield again." There is also an open book in the plate displaying these lines: "A smoky house and a scolding wife are the plagues of man's life. Oh what pleasure will abound when my wife is laid in ground!"
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