The inscription 'Bleste be the man that spares these stones, and curst be he that moves my bones' appears on whose gravestone?
Anne Hathaway (wife of Shakespeare) made. Author Stephen Greenblatt in "Will in the World," suggests that as Shakespeare lay dying, "he tried to forget his wife and then remembered her with the second-best bed. And when he thought of the afterlife, the last thing he wanted was to be mingled with the woman he married. There are four lines carved in [Shakespeare's] gravestone in the chancel of Stratford Church: "Good friend for Jesus sake forbeare, To digg the dust encloased heare: Bleste be ye man y't spares thes stones, And curst be he y't moves my bones." [Shakespeare may have] feared that his bones would
Epitaph this man to die:" "Would this man, could he see you now, ask why?" "There is borne an empty hearse" "covered over for such as appear not." "Heroes have the whole earth for their tomb." "Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!" "Good frend for Iesvs sake forebeare,"<br> "To digg the dvst encloased heare."<br> "Bleste be man spares thes stones,"<br> "And cvrst be he moves my bones." (In modern spelling):<br> Good friend for Jesus' sake forbear,<br> To dig the dust enclosed here.<br> Blessed be the man that spares these stones,<br> And cursed be he that moves