Then thou, our fancy of itself bereaving,

Dost make us marble with too much conceiving;

And, so sepulchred, in such pomp dost lie,

That Kings, for such a tomb, would wish to die.

John Milton.


AN EPITAPH (CONSIDERABLY) AFTER MILTON.

On that admirable, but lately maligned Dramatic Poet, the divine

Williams.

“What needs my Shakspeare for his honoured bones,”