Robbo your 'memory of John Donne in his shroud' !!I suspected but I did not
think that you were that old!
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> If you wont, I will:
>
> http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/donne/shroud.htm
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> Roger
I *think* the caption -- "John Donne in his shroud, painted a few weeks
before his death" -- is slightly wrong. My memory is that Donne posed for a
sculptor, who later carved his efiggy on his tomb (upright in a wall-niche,
no doggy footstools, but). Donne then, still dressed in his shroud (but
presumably wearing undergarments) trogged off to Paul's Cross or wherever,
preached Death's Duel (called by the gawping onlookers, "Doctor Donne's
death sermon), and returned home to die.
The Other R.
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