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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1857 Excerpt: ...post mortem CXXIV Amor Publicus Posuit." Epitaph on Shakspeare, written by John Milton in 1630, when Milton was in his 22nd year: --"What neede my Shakspeare for his honoured Bones, The Labour of an Age, in piled Stones? Or that his hallow'd Iteliques should be hid Under a starr-y pointing Pyramid? Deare Sonne of Memory, great Heire of Fame, What nced'st thou such dull Witnesse of thy name? Thou, in our Wonder and Astonishment, Hast built thyself a live-long Monument! For whilst to th' shame of slow-endevouring Art Thy easio Numbers flow, and that each Heart, Hath from the leaves of thy unvalued Booke, Those Delphicke Lines, such deep Impression tooke: Then, thou, our Fancy of herselfe bereaving, Dost make us Marble with too much conceiving: And, so sopulcher'd, in such Pomp dost lie, That Kings for such a Tombe would wish to die." The wife of Shakspeare is buried at Stratford, between the grave of her husband and the north wall. The inscription, engraved on a brass plate fixed to the stone, is as follows: --"Heere lyeth interred the bodye of Anne, wife of Mr. William SnAKsrEAKE, who Departed this life the 6th Day of August, 1623, being of the age of 67 years. libera, tv mater, tv lac vitamq dedisti, Vae mihi; protanto mvnere saxa dabo: Qvam mallom, amoueat lapidem bonvs angel ore, Exeat vt christi corpvs, imago tva Sed nil vota valent, venias cito christe, resurget, Clavsa lieet tvmvlo mater, et astra petet." John Fox, the Martyrologist, was buried in the church of St. Giles's, Cripplegate, where a monument was erected to his memory, with a Latin inscription, thus translated: --"john Fox, The faithful martyrologian of our English Church; A most discreet searcher into the antiquities of histories; A most stiff bulwark and fighter ...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781130625165
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 136
  • Spine Width: 7 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1130625168
  • Publisher Date: 01 Mar 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 254 gr


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