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Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?.

Sepulchre

O yet more miserable!
Myself my sepulchre, a moving grave.
Milton.—Samson Agonistes.

Herself becomes the sepulchre of what she was.
Dryden.—Pythagorean Phil. Ovid’s Met. Book XV.

The rotten bones discover’d there,
Shew ’tis a painted sepulchre.
Waller.—Epigrams.