What need my Shakespeare for his honoured bones
- DMI number:
- 17690
- First Line:
- What need my Shakespeare for his honoured bones
- Last Line:
- That kings for such a tomb would wish to die
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Epitaph and Couplet
- Themes:
- Death and Poetry / literature / writing
- Author:
- John Milton
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Carey (1997): 126-127
- First Line:
- What needs my Shakespeare for his honoured bones
- Last Line:
- That kings for such a tomb would wish to die
- Relationship:
- Variant Of
- Comments:
- Title:
- A choice collection of poetry by the most ingenious men of the age [vol II] [T124643] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- p.40
- Poem Title:
- An old Epitaph on Shakespear.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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