"In the name of God, I William Shakespeare,...God be praised, do make and ordain this, my last will and testament in manner and form following. That is to say, first I commend my soul into the hands of God my Creator, hoping and assuredly believing, through the only merits of Jesus Christ, my Saviour, to be made partaker of eternal life, and my body to the earth whereof it is made."
(Rowe, 1985, 182)

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Rowe, A.L. Shakespeare's Self Portrait. University Press of America, 1985.