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What inscription appears on Shakespeare's grave and who wrote it?

Question #91567. Asked by star_gazer.
Last updated Aug 24 2016.

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Answer has 4 votes.
"Good friend for Jesus sake forbeare,
To dig the dust enclosed here.
Blessed be the man that spares these stones,
And cursed be he that moves my bones."
Shakespeare wrote it himself because in his time, old bodies were dug up and burned to make room for new burials. Shakespeare despised this treatment of bodies, so he wrote this.

link http://www.shakespeare-online.com/biography/shakespeareburial.html

Response last updated by zorba_scank on Aug 24 2016.
Jan 25 2008, 3:15 PM
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Answer has 6 votes.

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A couple of nice pictures here:

link http://www.poetsgraves.co.uk/shakespeare.htm


His gravestone bears an epitaph which Shakespeare himself supposedly wrote. It warns:

Good friend for Jesus sake forbeare,
To dig the dust enclosed here.
Blessed be the man that spares these stones,
And cursed be he that moves my bones.

link http://www.literarygenius.info/death-william-shakespeare.htm

Response last updated by zorba_scank on Aug 24 2016.
Jan 25 2008, 5:49 PM
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