TY - JOUR AB - A MAN'S LAST WORDS carry presumption of credibility not associated with utterances made earlier in life. William Shakespeare acknowledged this credibility in at least three of his plays. When the physician, Cornelius, told Cymbeline that the Queen had confessed that she loved him not, Cymbeline declared, ‘She alone knew this;/And, but she spoke it dying, I would not/Believe her lips in opening it.’ VL - 24 IS - 6 SN - 0024-2535 DO - 10.1108/eb012604 UR - https://doi.org/10.1108/eb012604 AU - Bauer Harry C. PY - 1974 Y1 - 1974/01/01 TI - Shakespeare's Last Words T2 - Library Review PB - MCB UP Ltd SP - 255 EP - 261 Y2 - 2021/04/23 ER -