Hamlet, [5.1.226-234]. Priest. “Her obsequies have been as far enlarg’d/ As we have warranty. Her death was doubtful,/ And, but that great command o’ersways the order,/ She should in ground unsanctified been lodg’d/ Till the last trumpet. For charitable prayers,/ Shards, flints, and pebbles should be thrown on her./ Yet here she is allow’d her virgin crants,/ Her maiden strewments, and the bringing home/ Of bell and burial.”
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Name for garlands, from the German kranz, used at the funerals of unmarried girls.
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