1. By the 1770s the winding-sheet had almost disappeared, to be replaced by coffin sheets.

2. This would have been more expensive than the winding-sheet but it presented the body in a more natural attitude of repose.

3. It is, arguably, the finest pictorial representation of a seventeenth-century winding-sheet.

4. A black sky rested on these dead streets, as though an immense winding-sheet were being outspread over this immense tomb.

5. Thus lives she, and all her care is she may die in the springtime, to have store of flowers stuck upon her winding-sheet.