Thursday, December 11, 2003

Fun fact for the day

According to this site, the following is written on Shakespeare's grave:

Good friend for Jesus sake forbeare,
To digg the dust encloased heare!
Blest be the man that spares thes stones,
And curst be he that moves my bones.

Interesting, eh? The greatest poet/dramatist possibly of all time pleads graverobbers not to steal his corpse. You'd think he would've mentioned something about his poetry or plays in there somewhere. Something like...

Here lies Shakespeare.
I wrote Hamlet, motherfucker.
How you like them apples?

Of course, corpse-stealing was a rather large problem back in the day, but still.

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