The probable Condition of Shakespeare's Bones.
" A few years since, us some labourers were digging to make an adjoining vault, the earth caved -in, so as to leave a >acanfc space almost like an arch, through which one might have reached into hi* (Shake»peare's) grave. No one, however, presumed to meddle Tvith his remains so awfully guarded by a malediction ; and lest any of the idle or the curious, or any collector of relics, should be tempted to commit depredations, the old sexton kept watch on* the place for two days, until the vault was finished and the aperture closed again. He told me he had made bold to look in at the hole, but could see neither coffin rtor bones ; nothing but dust. It was something, I thought, to have seen the dust of Shakespeare."— Washington Ibving, 1820. 361,
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Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1845, 3 May 1884, Page 6 (Supplement)
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140The probable Condition of Shakespeare's Bones. Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1845, 3 May 1884, Page 6 (Supplement)
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