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Vpon the Lines and Life of the Famous Scenicke Poet, Mater Wiluam SHAKESPEARE.

THoe hands, which you o clapt, go now, and wring You Britanes braue; for done are Shakepeares dayes: His dayes are done, that made the dainty Playes, Which made the Globe of heau'n and earth to ring. Dry’de is that veine,drv'dis the Thepin Spring, Turn'd all to teares, and Phœbus clouds his rayes : That corps, that coffin now beticke thoe bayes, Which crown'd him Poet firt, then Poets King. If Tragedies might any Prologue haue, All thoe he made, would carec make one to this: Where Fame, now that he gone is to the graue (Deaths pubiliquetyring-houe,) the Nuncius is. For though his line of life went oone about, The life yet of his lines hall neuer out.

HVGH HOLLAND.