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John Bartlett (1820–1905).  Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.  1919.
 
 
NUMBER:2065
AUTHOR:Ben Jonson (1572–1637)
QUOTATION:What gentle ghost, besprent with April dew,
Hails me so solemnly to yonder yew? 1
ATTRIBUTION:Elegy on the Lady Jane Pawlet.
BIOGRAPHY:Columbia Encyclopedia.
 
Note 1.
What beckoning ghost along the moonlight shade
Invites my steps, and points to yonder glade?
Alexander Pope: To the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady. [back]
 

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