"Ye undertakers, tell us, 'Midst all the gorgeous figures you exhibit, Why is the principal conceal'd, for which You m…"

"There was a man bespake a thing, Which when the owner home did bring, He that made it did refuse it: And he that brou…"

"Why is the hearse with scutcheons blazon'd round, And with the nodding plume of ostrich crown'd? No; the dead know it…"

"Diaulus, lately a doctor, is now an undertaker; what he does as an undertaker, he used to do also as a doctor."

"There's a grim one-horse hearse in a jolly round trot; To the churchyard a pauper is going I wot; The road it is roug…"

"Dido, my deare, alas! is dead, Dead, and lyeth wrapt in lead. O heavie herse!"

"Underneath this sable herse Lyes the subject of all verse."

"On all the line a sudden vengeance waits, And frequent herses shall besiege your gates."

"Not even your Britain's groans can pierce The leaden silence of your hearse."

"Red sky at night, sailors' delight. Red sky at morning, sailors take warning."