A moth it is to trouble the mindes eye: In the most high and palmy state of Rome, A little ere the mightiest Iulius fell The graues stood tennatlesse, and the sheeted dead Did squeake and gibber in the Roman streets As starres with traines of fier, and dewes of blood Disasters in the sunne; and the moist starre, Vpon whose influence Neptunes Empier stands Was sicke almost to doomesday with eclipse.

There needs no Ghost my Lord, come from the Graue, to tell vs this.

Into my Graue? Pol.

Indeede this Counsellor [Sidenote: night indeed, this] Is now most still, most secret, and most graue, [Sidenote: 84] Who was in life, a foolish prating Knaue.

Larded with sweet flowers: [Sidenote: Larded all with] Which bewept to the graue did not go, [Sidenote: ground | Song.]

[Sidenote: bare-faste] Hey non nony, nony, hey nony: And on his graue raines many a teare, [Sidenote: And in his graue rain'd]

[Sidenote: bare-faste] Hey non nony, nony, hey nony: And on his graue raines many a teare, [Sidenote: And in his graue rain'd]

I tell thee she is, and therefore make her [Sidenote: is, therefore] Graue straight, the Crowner hath sate on her, and finds it Christian buriall.

Come, my Spade; there is no ancient Gentlemen, but Gardiners, Ditchers and Graue-makers; they hold vp Adams Profession.

Cudgell thy braines no more about it; for your dull Asse will not mend his pace with beating, and when you are ask't this question next, say a Graue-maker: the Houses that he makes, lasts

a sings in graue-making.] that he sings at Graue-making? Hor.

a sings in graue-making.] that he sings at Graue-making? Hor.

I will speake to this fellow: whose Graue's this Sir?

How [Sidenote: the heele of the] long hast thou been a Graue-maker?

[Sidenote: been Graue-maker?]

And not t'haue strew'd thy Graue.

Forbeare the earth a while: sister farewell: Leartes leapes into the graue.

To outface me with leaping in her Graue? Be buried quicke with her, and so will I.

Good Gertrude set some watch ouer your Sonne, This Graue shall haue a liuing Monument: An houre of quiet shortly shall we see; [Sidenote: quiet thirtie shall]

Interdum quoque sensimus tanquam graues baculorum ictus, per humeros, dorsa, latera, et ad renes, alij quidem grauiores, alij vt puta secundum demeritum vniuscuiusque.

The tombe is long and narrowe, and deepe, walled on euery side like a graue, in the botome whereof was found the sayd stone with the writing on it, and the said glasse of ashes, and also another litle glasse of the same proportion, wherein, as they say, are the teares of his friendes, and in those dayes they did vse to gather and bury with them, as they did vse in Italy and Spaine to teare their haire, to bury with their friendes.

Vostre maintien soit d'homme moderément graue, posé, & attentif a ce qui se dit, afin de n'auoir pas à dire à tout propos: Comment ditez-vous? comment se passe cela?

"The wife of John Tompson of Fairefeild testifyeth vpon oath, that goodwife Whitlock, goodwife Staplyes and herselfe, were at the graue and desired to see ye markes of the witch that was hanged, they looked but found them not at first, then the midwife came & shewed them, goodwife Staplyes said she neuer saw such, and she beleeved no honest woman had such.