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In this burial scene of poor Ophelia, we find 

 the priest saying : 



*' Here she is allowed her virgin rites, 



Her maiden strewments." 



Some editions have it her virgin crants" that 

 is, garlands. Her brother, Laertes, says : 



-Lay her i* the earth ; 



And from her fair and unpolluted flesh 

 .May violets spring." 



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