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William Shakespeare, 1564-1616 [1640], Poems: vvritten by Wil. Shake-speare. Gent (Printed... by Tho. Cotes, and are to be sold by Iohn Benson [etc.], London) [word count] [S11600]. To look up a word in a dictionary, select the word with your mouse and press 'd' on your keyboard.
William Shakespeare, who died in Aprill, Anno Dom. 1616. [secondary verse]
Renowned Spenser lie a thought more nigh
To learned Chauser, and rare Beaumount lie A little neerer Spenser to make roome, For Shakespeare in your three-fold, foure-fold Tombe; To lodge all foure in one bed make a shift, Vntill Dommes-day, for hardly shall a fift Betwixt this day and that by Fate be slaine, For whom your Curtaines may be drawne againe. If your precedencie in death doth barre, A fourth place in your sacred Sepulchre! Vnder this sacred Marble of thy owne, Sleepe rare Tragedian Shakespeare, sleepe alone; Thy unmolested peace in an unshar'd Cave, Possesse as Lord, not Tennant of thy Grave. That unto us, and others it may be, Honour hereafter to be laid by thee. W. B.
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