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Death is a debt to nature due that i must pay and so must you.

Full Text
Death is a debt to nature due that i must pay and so must you.
Listed on Page Number
281
Sampler Worked By
Hannah Deming
Date of Sampler
1786
Place Sampler Made
n.p.
Sampler Listed on Page
41
Author/Publication/Country/Date
“An Epitaph in a Country Church-yard.” Epigrams Fresh Gather’d from the Conversation of the Polite and Ingenious: Or glean’d from the Most Sprightly Authors. London: J. Newberry, 1750. pg. 61 See also: Chudleigh, Lady (Mary Lee). Poems on Several Occasions: with The Song go the Three Children Paraphras’d. London: Bernard Lintott, 1703. pg. 93
Notes
https://archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_epigrams-fresh-gatherd-_1750/page/n62/mode/1up?q=%22debt+to+nature+due%22 I’ve included an early reference to the phrase “debt to nature due” in a 1703 poem here: https://archive.org/details/poemsonseveralo01chudgoog/page/n112/mode/1up?q=%22debt+to+nature+due%22 The subject mourns in a churchyard and suggests that the epitaph is known even earlier than this 1703 publication or draws inspiration from it.