"Beauty is only skin deep, but...."

I have always heard my father use this phrase - "Beauty is only skin deep, but ugliness is to the bone." The first part of this phrase, "Beauty is only skin deep" is listed in your archives but I could not find the last part of the phrase, "...but ugliness is to the bone". Can you tell me what the origin of this phrase is?

The Trivia library ([Dead link removed - ed]) has the original saying and say the other version ("an old jingle") is "author unknown":

"Beauty is but skin deep,
ugly lies the bone;
Beauty dies and fades away,
but ugly holds its own."
(© 1975 - 1981 by David Wallechinsky & Irving Wallace Reproduced with permission from "The People's Almanac" series of books.)

I don't know whether the "ugly lies the bone" is a typo (something seems to be missing). Pamela

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There's our old friend Anonymous once again. When a beautiful person dies, the beauty is the first to decay, leaving the bone, ugly by comparison. "Lies" is a usefully one-syllable verb meaning to remain behind, if you stretch it a little.

I can't help thinking of Marc Antony's famous speech in Shakepeare's Julius Caesar:

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their bones;
So let it be with Caesar.
SS

"Ugly lies the bone." The bone lies under the skin and flesh as a mineral deposit might lie under the earth's surface. It just sits there in place, being ugly. That's my interpretation. ~rb

The afterthought about ugliness is more than three and a half centuries newer than "Beauty is only skin deep", which is first listed in a book of proverbs in 1616. (VSD)