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William Shakespeare | Shakespeare's Grave

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Picture of the slabstone over Shakespeare's tomb, which reads:

Good Friend, for Jesus’ sake forbear
To dig the dust enclosed here:
Blessed be the man that spares these stones,
And curst be he that moves my bones.

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