Note 5 — MEMOIR.
Reading edition
The words "'Tis fit one flesh one house should have," &c., form part of the epitaph of Richard Bartholomew and his wife in the parish church of Burford.
It stands thus:—
Lo Hudled up, Together lye Gray Age, Greene Youth, White Infancy. If Death doth Nature's law dispence, And reconciles all difference, 'Tis fit One Flesh One House should have, One Tombe, One Epitaph, One Grave; And they that lived and loved either Should dye and Lye and sleep together. Goe Reader, whether goe or stay, Thou must not hence be long away.