No one is allowed to enter the towers except the corpse-bearers, nor is any one permitted within thirty feet of the immediate precincts.

"Good Lord, Chase, you're not clinging to that corpse-candle straw, are you?" cried his lordship, beginning to pace the floor.

Corpse guards parade, by Milward Kennedy, pseud.

Corpse-carnival, by D. R. Banet, pseud.

Kiss the corpse goodbye.

A Corpse-maker goes courting.

" "As long as it is so," replied the corpse-soldiers, "we are your faithful servants always.

"Arise," said Mercurie, "thou sluggish beast, That here liest senseles, like the corpse deceast, The whilste thy kingdome from thy head is rent, And thy throne royall with dishonour blent: 1330

The mortal corpse doth not now rise again, but the soul doth rise again which lay dead in a living body.

Answer me, then: would the Jews, who were always a practical people and not corpse-worshippers like the Egyptians, have taken all that trouble to hide the tomb of their kings unless there were important treasure in it?

[Illustration: A CORPSE CARAVAN]

c. 33.) or by the sight of a monster, a carcase, they are disquieted many months following, and cannot endure the room where a corpse hath been, for a world would not be alone with a dead man, or lie in that bed many years after in which a man hath died.

Besides these jolly birds, whose corpse impure Repaid their commons with their salt-manure; Another farm he had behind his house, Not overstock'd, but barely for his use: Wherein his poor domestic poultry fed, And from his pious hands received their bread.

The grave old clock ticked somewhere in the gloom, A dozen waiting seconds rose and fell Ere his pale dagger flickered in the room, Then quenched its corpse-light in their bosoms' swell 'Thus, dears, I mate you evermore in hell.'

Then, maybe, dangling from thy gloomy gallows boughs, A human corpse swings, mournful, rattling bones and chains His eighteenth century flesh hath fattened nineteenth century cows Ghastly Aeolian harp fingered of winds and rains.

The following words are instances: SAXON FRENCH body corpse folk people

There was cold meat and sherry on the table; a dreadful servant asked me if I would go up to the corpse-room.

You will hear the song of the cloister robbery; of Herr Carl who was sick to death; when the young nun entered the corpse chamber, sat down by his feet and whispered how sincerely she had loved him, and the knight rose from his bier and bore her away to marriage and pleasure in Copenhagen.

Now in her coffin she lies, Silent amid scented flowers Ah what mute spirits in white O'er her corpse circle and hover?

He dream'd the third: but now his friend appear'd Pale, naked, pierced with wounds, with blood besmear'd: Thrice warn'd, awake, said he; relief is late, The deed is done; but thou revenge my fate: Tardy of aid, unseal thy heavy eyes; Awake, and with the dawning day arise: Take to the western gate thy ready way, For by that passage they my corpse convey: