What Needs My Shakespeare For His Honour'd Bones,-- The Labour Of An Age In Piled Stones?

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What needs my Shakespeare for his honour'd bones,--
The labour of an age in piled stones?
Or that his hallow'd relics should be hid
Under a star-y-pointing pyramid?
Dear son of memory, great heir of fame,
What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name?
-- John Milton (1608-1674)
-- Epitaph on Shakespeare

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