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himself down to posterity. The inscriptions are as follow:

'' Judicio Pylium, genio Socatem, arte Maroncm, " Terra teget., popuius ma ret, Olympus habet."

V Stay, Passenger ! why go'st thou by so fast ?

" Head, if thou canst, whom envious death has plac'd

" Within this monument; Shakespeare with whom

" Quite nature died, whose name doth deck this tombe

" Far more than cost; sich all that he hath watt,

" Leaves living art but page to serve his witt.

lf Obiit A. D. ]0l6, iEtatis 53, die 23d April."

A flat stone, lying on the pavement over the place of his interment, has this inscription, said to have been written by Shakespeare for his owi: monument;

" Good friend for Jesus' sake forbeare " To digg the dust encloased hearej " Blest be the man that spaces these stones, " And curst be he that moves my bones."

Near the remains of Shakespeare lie those of Anne his wife, who died the 6th of August 1628, aged 67; of Susannah Hall, (his daughter) the wife of John Hall, gent, who died the 2d day of July 1649, aged 66; ard of John Coomb, esq; the ob- ject of Shakespeare's severe epitaph, a joke he never forgot or forgave. Like most other misers, he was generous enough of his money when he no

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