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All kinds of carcasses I have cut up, And the judgment now must be—But brothers I took care of you, So pray take care of me!
I have made candles of infants fat The Sextons have been my slaves,I have bottled babes unborn, and dried Hearts and livers from rifled graves.
And my Prentices now will surely come And carve me bone from bone,And I who have rifled the dead man’s grave Shall never have rest in my own.
Bury me in lead when I am dead, My brethren I intreat,And see the coffin weigh’d I beg Lest the Plumber should be a cheat.
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