Shakespoke’s Epigram.
Young friend, for Cyclus’s sake forbear
To bite the dust that’s ever near.
Blest is the man avoids the stones,
And curst is he that breaks his bones.
Lyra Bicyclica, by Joseph G. Dalton. (Boston. E. C. Hodges and Co. 1885.)
The same volume contains several imitations of Shakespeare’s sonnets in praise of the pleasures of bicycle riding.
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“The First Sitting of the Committee on the Proposed Monument to Shakspeare, carefully taken in shorthand by Zachary Craft, amanuensis to the Chairman.”
“Come in shadows—so depart.”—Macbeth.