[stylist] Milton: On Shakespeare

[James Canaday M.A. N6YR]

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jc

Jim Canaday M.A.
Lawrence, KS

At 08:47 PM 4/2/2009, you wrote:
>ON SHAKESPEAR.  1630.
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>WHAT needs my Shakespear for his honour'd Bones,
>The labour of an age in piled Stones,
>Or that his hallow'd reliques should be hid
>Under a Star-ypointing Pyramid?
>Dear son of memory, great heir of Fame,
>What need'st thou such weak witnes of thy name?
>Thou in our wonder and astonishment
>Hast built thy self a live-long Monument.
>For whilst to th'sharne of slow-endeavouring art,
>Thy easie numbers flow, and that each heart                          10
>Hath from the Leaves of thy unvalu'd Book,
>Those Delphick lines with deep impression took,
>Then thou our fancy of it self bereaving,
>Dost make us Marble with too much conceaving;
>And so Sepulcher'd in such pomp dost lie,
>That Kings for such a Tomb would wish to die.
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