O Death how thou spoil'st the best project of life, <br />Said Gabriel, who still as he bury'd one wife, <br />For the sake of her family married her cousin; <br />And thus in an honest collateral line <br />He still married on till his number was nine, <br />Full sorry to die till he made up his dozen.<br /><br />Matthew Prior<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/wives-by-the-dozen/
