Piney Woods Philosopher: Trouble for Shakespeare

Piney and She were amused at a news program on CBS and also on BBC that remodeling was to be done at Trinity Church at Stratford Upon Avon, the church where Shakespeare was buried.
The amusement resulted from several factors:
In (Piney thinks) 1986, Piney and She Who Must Be Obeyed had a school for American kids, mostly from Florida, near Stratford in England.
The idea was to give the kids not only a bit of Europe and especially England, but also to give them a shot of Shakespeare, straight from his hometown!
Well, the new story on TV was that the church remodeling might disturb the grave of Shakespeare. There was much canoodling because there was a poem over the grave:
GOODE FREND FOR JESUS SAKE FORBEARE
TO DIGGE YE DUST ENCLOASED HERE BLEST BE HE WHO SPARES THEs STONES En CURSED BE HE WHO MOVES THES BONES (sic)
So, the question was: they might mess up the inscription, might mess up the grave, and dishonor the remains and so forth, so what to do when the carpenters and stonemasons were working on the stone floor in the church?
Piney wrote the official Shakespeare birthday poem at Stratford for the 300th birthday celebration.
While doing that, he had met the greatest of the Shakespeare historians, a Dr. Ely, and Dr. Ely had told him that though that plot with the inscription was really Shakespeare’s grave, there was no one in the grave!
For the custom was every 20 years to take up the bones and put them in an ossuary, or “charnel house,“ a building for that purpose outside the church.
That was done about 1650.
So Piney and She Who Must Be Obeyed won’t worry about disturbing Will.
What’s more, they have and revere a 17th-century brass rubbing of the poem above, right here in Rural Retreat!

A writer, Bill Cobbs divides his time between Southwest Virginia and Florida.