XCI.

Ah, with the Grape my fading life provide, And wash the Body whence the Life has died, And lay me, shrouded in the living Leaf, By some not unfrequented Garden-side.

This quatrain owes its inspiration to C. 12.

When I am dead wash me with wine, Say my funeral service with pure wine, If thou wishest that thou shouldst see me on the resurrection-day Thou must seek me in the earth of the tavern threshold.

_Ref._: C. 12, L. 13, B. 12, S.P. 7, P. 299, B. ii. 9, T. 12.--W 6, N. 7, V. 11

[Illustration: _THE APPROACH TO NAISHAPUR_ _From a painting by I.R. Herbert_]

O. 69 may also be quoted:

Take heed to stay me with the wine-cup, And make this amber[87] face like a ruby; When I die, wash me with wine, And out of the wood of the vine make the planks of my coffin.

_Ref._: O. 69, C. 158, L. 308, B. 304, S.P. 109, P. 212, B. ii. 199, T. 143, P. v. 153.--W. 139, N. 109, V. 311.