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Ye undertakers, tell us, 'Midst all the gorgeous figures you exhibit, Why is the principal conceal'd, for which You make this mighty stir? - Robert Blair, The Grave (l. 170) There was a man bespake a think, Which when the owner home did bring, He that made it did refuse it: And he that brought it would not use it, And he that hath it doth now know Whether he hath it yea or no. - Sir John Davies, Riddle upon a Coffin Why is the hearse with scutcheons blazon'd round, And with the nodding plume of ostrich crown'd? No; the dead know it not, nor profit gain; It only serves to prove the living vain. - John Gay, Trivia (bk. III, l. 231) Diaulus, lately a doctor, is now an undertaker' what he does as an undertaker, he used to do also as a doctor. - Martial (Marcus Valerius Martialis), Epigrams (bk. I, ep. 47) There's a grim one-horse hearse in a jolly round trot; To the churchyear a pauper is going I wot; The road it is rough, and the hearse has no springs, And hark to the dirge that the sad driver sings-- Rattle his bones over the stones, He's only a pauper whom nobody owns. - Thomas Noel, The Pauper's Drive Has this fellow no feeling of his business, that he sings at grave-making? Custom hath made it in him a property of easiness. - William Shakespeare The houses he makes last till doomsday. - William Shakespeare, Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Clown at V, i)
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