relic quotes

Fair Greece! sad relic of departed worth! Immortal, though no more! though fallen, great!

-Rochdale
^18  Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, canto 2, stanza 73.

O double sacrilege on things divine, To rob the relic, and deface the shrine!

-John Dryden
  'To the Pious Memory of the  AccomplishedYoung Lady Mrs  Anne Killigrew'. Killigrew had died of smallpox.

Why should only I† Be cased up, like a holy relic? I have youth And a little beauty.

-John Webster
  The Duchess of Malfi, act 3, sc.2.