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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?”
Provenance
- Source:
- Epitaph on Shakespeare.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 1846a0f4168089ab47b6140f7f0de833c5ce4d05257928baec81d3f610554e75
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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