Wees me at 400 great, a distance to take even the outlines of your perfections. I would not therefore, where I cannot pre. sume to do justice, be thought to descend to the unbecoming art of Aattery: II must launch out, indeed, a great way; to make myself liable to that imputation, with regard to your Royal Highness; but Dedications are generally suspected of overftraining. ?l How far so ever, MADAM, my vanity or iny ambition might millead me into that tract, I'll oblige myself to govern both my duty'; and turn all attempts of praise and compliment into veneration and pious wishes. That You may long con. tinue to bless the eyes and arms of the PRINCE, your Illuftrious Confort; and that you may continue to bless the nation with a numerous succession of Princes, to the future glory and security of our establishment, is my ardent p prayeri and از سه ر که. . 1 A + An EPITAPH on the admirable Dramatic Poet, W. SHAKESPEARE. W 7 HAT neede my Shakejpeare for his honour'd bones. The labour of an age, in piled ftones ? J. MILTON + This Epitaph was written in 1630, wbon Milton was in his two. and twentierb year; for he was born in 1608. In Remembrance of ODE. Your num'rous feet not tread II. (Unwilling orais, as he hath hiç (Unwiling now to grow,)...st" Looks like the plume a captain wearso: 9731192.** Whose rifled falls are steept i'th? tears us? fiu.ls.ro Which from his last rage flowers'ta! III., The pitepas river. wept itself away,623 iudin, Long since (alas !) to such a swift decay, y1510 That reach the map and looks sain ... If you a river there can spyt i mot 28 516 gun's And, for a river, your mock'd eyes 9514 bluoda Will find a Mallow brooke. "Euoti 103 inst: i) 20.00 W. DA VENANT. sigo liw s079199010 ChNetimecineNeetiNUGAN don't smo jon liv. I 1 On the. Effigies of SHAKESPEARE, prefix'd to bis printed Works uod blovila ir bra that thou here seeft pused 9x boca It was for gentle Shakespeare cut in cui ont Wherein the had a strile With nature, to out-doo the life : o nuoro I 104 o, could he but have drawn his wit jinou bigod's As well 15 wai liya to A writ'in braffe. 10 icots rigacDW. Eur,“ since he cannot, reader, look Not on his picture, but his book, B.J. od 910 a HIS Rgure, the TIS the graver ha All, that was even b301 7903 To the Menory of my Beloved, the Author, Mr. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE; 47 rigarunt and fame; 20WH While I confess thy Feritings to be füch, 2. is die binnen * As neither man, nor mufe, can praise too much. T And we have wits to to my b The applaufe fadelighet the wonder of oor stage 1 and praise to give. small Latin and less Greek From thence to honour thee, I would not seek For names; but call forth thund'ring -£fobylus, and Sophocles to us, To live again, to hear thy Buskin tread, "And take la fage? Or, when thy socks were on, "Leave thee alone for the comparison Of all, that insolent Greece, or haughty Rome , Triumph, my Britain! thou haft: one to show, To whom all funes of Europe homage owes s not of an age, but for all time! And all the mulet till were in their prime, When's He was |