humanities.lit.authors.shakespeare

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On the 14th anniversary of Anne Hathaway's death [August 6, =AD1637].
. Ben Jonson was BURIED UPRIGHT leaning against the WALL
. of his Westminster Abbey crypt as requested:
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'TWO FEET BY TWO FEET WILL do for all I WANT'. - Ben Jonson
=2E http://westminster-abbey.org/library/burial/images/jonson.
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__ GOOD FREND FOR IESVS' SAKE F{OR}[BE]{ARE},
___ TO DIGG THE DVST ENCLOASED ___ [HE]{ARE}:
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=2E BLESTE BE Ye MAN Yt SPA[RE]S THES STONES,
_ AND CVRST BE HE Yt MO[VE]S MY BONES.
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http://library.thinkquest.org/5175/images/grave1.jpg
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<< *HEBE* was worshipped as a goddess of *PARDONs* or
*FORGIVENESS* ; freed prisoners would hang their *CHAINS*
=2E in the sacred grove of her sanctuary at Phlius.>>
=2E http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/Herakles/hebe.html
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<=2E There was *EVER* more in him to be prayse=ADd,.
=2E then to be *PARDONed* .>>
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=2E _DiscoVERiEs_ by Ben Jonson (1640)
=2E. De Shakespeare *NOSTRAT*
=2E http://my.execpc.com/~berrestr/jon-sha.html
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=2E Hamlet (Quarto 2, 1604-5): Act 5, Scene 2
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Ham. Giue me your *PARDON* sir, I haue done you *WRONG* ,
But *PARDON* 't as you are a gentleman, this presence knowes,
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Laer. Exchange *FORGIUENESSE* with me noble Hamlet,
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*HEBE* is the *YOUNG* -est daughter of Zeus & Hera and was
the goddess of YOUTH and the servant of the Greco-Roman gods.
=2E http://homepage.mac.com/cparada/GML/Hebe.html
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=2E http://westminster-abbey.org/library/burial/jonson.htm
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<been done at the expense of JACK *YOUNG* who was walking by when
the grave was cOVERed & gave the *MASON 18 pence* to cut it.>>
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Dennis wrote:
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> According to the local tradition, he asked the King (Charles I) to
> grant him a favour. "What is it?" said the King -- "Give me eighteen
> inches of square ground." "Where?" asked the King. -- "In Westminster
> Abbey." This is one explanation given of the story that he was buried
> standing upright. Another is that it was in view to his readiness for
> the Resurrection . . . . This stone [covering his grave] was taken up
> when, in 1821, the Nave was repaved, and was brought back from the
> stoneyard of the clerk of the works, in the time of Dean Buckland, by
> whose order it was fitted into its present place in the north wall of
> the Nave. Meanwhile, the original spot had been marked by a small
> triangular lozenge, with a copy of the old inscription. When, in 1819,
> Sir Robert Wilson was buried close by, the loose sand of Jonson's
> grave (to use the expression of the clerk of the works who
> superintended the operation) "rippled in like a quicksand," and the
> clerk "saw the two leg-bones of Jonson, fixed bolt upright in the
> sand, as though the body had been buried in the upright position; and
> the skull came rolling down among the sand, from a position above the
> leg-bones, to the bottom of the newly-made grave. There was still hair
> upon it, and it was of a red colour." It was seen once more on the
> digging of John Hunter's grave; and "it had still traces of red hair
> upon it. The world long wondered that he should lie buried from the
> rest of the poets and want a tomb." This monument, in fact, was to
> have been erected by subscription soon after his death, but was
> delayed by the breaking-out of the Civil War. The present medallion in
> Poets' Corner was set up in the middle of the last century by "a
> person of quality, whose name was desired to be concealed." By a
> mistake of the sculptor, the buttons were set on the left side of the
> coat. Hence this epigram --
>
> O rare Ben Jonson-what a turncoat grown!
> Thou ne'er wast such, till clad in stone:
> Then let not this disturb thy sprite,
> Another age shall set thy buttons right.
>
> -- STANLEY, ARTHUR PENRHYN, 1867-96, Historical Memorials of
> Westminster Abbey, pp. 288, 289.
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Art Neuendorffer