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THE MONUMENT OF SHAKESPEARE IN STRATFORD CHURCH. |
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| THE Monumental Effigy of SHAKESPEARE, at Stratford upon Avon, represented in this plate, is, perhaps, the only genuine resemblance of the Poet extant. Considerable doubt certainly attaches to the greater part of his supposed Portraits. The inscription beneath it, is as follows: | |
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Pylium, genio Socratem, arte Maronem, Terra tegit, Populus moeret, Olympus habet." |
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passenger, why dost thou go so fast?- Read, if thou can'st, whom envious Death hath plac'd Within this monument; SHAKESPEARE, with whom Quick Nature dy'd; whose name doth deck the tomb Far more than cost, since all that he hath writ, Leaves living Art but page to serve his wit." |
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