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" THE FUNERAL WHOEVER comes to shroud me, do not harm Nor question much That subtle wreath of hair about mine arm; The mystery, the sign, you must not touch, For 'tis my outward soul, Viceroy to that which, unto heav'n being gone, Will leave this to control... "
Bell's Edition - Page 20
by John Bell - 1799
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The Works of the British Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical ...

Robert Anderson - 1795 - 912 pages
...wreath of hair about mine arm t The myflery, the fign, you muft not touch, For 't is my outward foul, Viceroy to that which unto heav'n being gone, Will leave this to controHl, And keep thefe h'mb*, her provinces, from difiblution. For if the finewy thread my btain...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including ..., Volume 5

Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 728 pages
...both me and thee, T invent and practise this one way, t' annihilate all three. THE FUNERAL. WHOEVER comes to shroud me, do not harm Nor question much...; The mystery, the sign, you must not touch, .For t is my outward soul, Viceroy to that, which unto Hrav'n being gone, Will leave this to control, And...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper, Volume 5

Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 746 pages
...much That subtle wreath of hair about mine arm ; The mystery, the sign, you must not touch, For "t is my outward soul, Viceroy to that, which unto Heav'n being gone, Will leave this to control, And keep these limbs, her provinces, from dissolution. For if the sinewy thread my brain lets...
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Lectures on the English Comic Writers: Delivered at the Surry Institution

William Hazlitt - 1819 - 368 pages
...wearing his late wife's hair about his arm, in a little poem which is called the Funeral : " Whoever comes to shroud me, do not harm Nor question much...mine arm ; The mystery, the sign you must not touch." The scholastic reason he gives quite dissolves the charm of tender and touching grace in the sentiment...
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The Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany, Volume 83

1819 - 614 pages
...the poet's wearing his lute wife's hair about his arm, in a little poem called the Funeral. " Whoever comes to shroud me, do not harm Nor question much...about mine arm, The mystery, the sign you must not touiij." Donne should have closed the potni here, and not have marred the mystery himself, by the meddling...
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Retrospective Review, Volume 8

Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - 1823 - 402 pages
...going, and bidding go !" altogether an admirable and most interesting example of his style. " Whoever comes to shroud me, do not harm, Nor question much, That subtle wreath of hair which crowns my arm ; The mystery, the sign you must not touch, For 'tis my outward soul ; • Viceroy...
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The Retrospective Review.., Volume 8

Henry Southern - 1823 - 398 pages
...has done. The piece is altogether an admirable and most interesting example of his style. " Whoever comes to shroud me, do not harm, Nor question much, That subtle wreath of hair which crowns my arm ; The mystery, the sign you must not touch, For 'tis my outward soul ; Viceroy...
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Lectures on the English Comic Writers

William Hazlitt - 1845 - 242 pages
...wearing his late wife's hair about his arm, in a little poem which is called the Funeral : " Whoever comes- to shroud me, do not harm Nor question much...mine arm ; The mystery, the sign you must not touch." The scholastic reason he gives quite dissolves the charm of tender and touching grace in the sentiment...
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Lectures on the English Comic Writers

William Hazlitt - 1845 - 512 pages
...about his arm, in a little poem which is called the Funeral : " Whoever comes to shroud me, do not bum Nor question much That subtle wreath of hair, about...mine arm; The mystery, the sign you must not touch." The scholastic reason he gives quite dissolves the charm of tender and touching grace in the sentiment...
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The Miscellaneous Works, Volume 2

William Hazlitt - 1854 - 980 pages
...UM cirrumitanrr of bit kk lair wife's hair about hb arm, in a little poem which it call«J " Whoever comes to shroud me, do not harm Nor question much...mine arm ; The mystery, the sign you must not touch." The scholastic reason he gives quite dissolves the charm of tender and touching grace in the sentiment...
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