Blaney's Last Directions
It
is
usual
for
people
in
this
country
(out
of
pretended
respect
but
rather
from
an
impertinent
curiosity)
to
desire
to
see
persons
after
they
are
dead.
It
is
my
earnest
request
that
no
person
on
any
pretence
whatever
may
be
permitted
to
see
my
corpse
but
those
who
unavoidably
must.
I
desire
to
be
buried
in
the
north
side
of
the
churchyard
of
Tregynon
somewhere
about
the
centre
my
coffin
to
be
made
in
the
most
plain
and
simple
manner
without
the
usual
fantastical
decorations
and
the
more
perishable
the
material
the
better.
I
desire
that
no
undertaker
or
professed
performer
of
funerals
may
be
employed:
but
that
I
may
be
conveyed
to
the
churchyard
in
some
country
hears
which
may
be
hired
for
the
occasion
and
my
corpse
to
be
carried
from
hearse
to
the
grave
immediately
without
going
into
the
church
by
six
of
the
chief
Tregynon
tenants
to
whom
I
give
two
guineas
each
for
their
trouble.
It
is
my
earnes
request
and
desire
to
have
no
upper
bearers
or
any
persons
whatever
invited
to
my
funeral
which
I
desire
may
be
at
so
early
an
hour
as
will
best
prevent
a
concourse
of
people
from
collecting
together:
the
better
sort
I
presume
will
not
intrude
as
there
is
no
invitation.
I
have
been
present
at
the
funerals
of
three
of
my
uncles
at
Morville.
I
was
pleased
with
the
privacy
and
decency
with
which
all
things
were
conducted:
no
strangers
attended
all
was
done
by
the
servants
of
the
family.
It
is
my
earnest
desire
to
follow
these
examples
however
unpopular
and
that
no
coach
no
escutcheon
and
no
pomp
of
any
kind
may
appear.
I
trust
that
my
executor
will
be
well
justified
against
the
clamor
and
obloquy
of
mercenary
people
when
he
acts
in
performance
of
the
last
request
of
a
dying
friend
who
solemnly
adjures
him
in
the
name
of
God
punctually
to
observe
these
directions.
codicil
I
likewise
give
to
all
my
servants
five
guineas
each
in
lieu
of
all
mourning
which
it
is
my
desire
no
person
may
use
on
my
account.
Ben Jonson
Ben Jonson (born June 11?, 1572, London, England—died August 6, 1637, London) English Stuart dramatist, lyric poet, and literary critic. He is generally regarded as the second most important English dramatist, after William Shakespeare, during the reign of James I. Among his major plays are the comedies Every Man in His Humour (1598), Volpone (1605), Epicoene; or, The Silent Woman (1609), The Alchemist (1610), and Bartholomew Fair (1614). Ben Jonson died in Westminster on August 8, 1637. A tremendous crowd of mourners attended his burial at Westminster Abbey. He is regarded as one of the major dramatists and poets of the seventeenth century.