(1) To be cured we we must rise from our graves and throw off the cerements of the dead.(2) The coffin was forced, the cerements torn, and the melancholy relics, clad in sackcloth, after being rattled for hours on moonless byways, were at length exposed to uttermost indignities before a class of gaping boys.(3) In an early scene, Hamlet begs the ghost to tell u2018Why thy canoniz'd bonesu2026 Have burst their cerements .u2019(4) More dramatic yet is the tomb of General William Hargrave, also in Westminster Abbey, by Louis - Francois Roubiliac, in which the deceased is shown breaking free of his cerements , apparently already confident of his salvation.
