Citation - Virginia Gazette-Williamsburg (Ri): 1773.06.10

VGW(RI.773.047
10 Jun 1773:23 (370)
London. . . Yesterday morning a tradesman in the Borough was
found in his bed with his throat cut from ear to ear, and
the four following remarkable lines (said to be cut off an
old newspaper) in his pocket:
  Oh death! thou pleasing end of human woe--
  Thou care of life--thou best of things below!
  May'st thou still shun the coward and the slave, 
  And thy soft slumbers only ease the brave.