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pages on which it is written. It was witnessed by Francis Collins, Julius Shaw, John Robinson, Hamnet Sadler, and Rohert Whatcott, and was proved June 22, 1616,


LXVIII. SHAKESPEARE’S DEATH AND BURIAL (1616).

Stratford Burial Register.

1616 April 25 Will. Shakspere, gent.


Note. The date of Shakespeare’s death, April 23, is indicated by the inscription on his monument in the chancel of Holy Trinity Church, Stratford:

 Judicio Pylium, genio Socratem, arte Maronem Terra tegit, populus moeret, Olympus habet.
 Stay, passenger, why goest thou by so fast? Read, if thou canst, whom envious death hath placed Within this monument: Shakespeare, with whom Quick nature died; whose name doth deck his tomb Far more than cost; sith all that he hath writ Leaves living art but page to serve his wit.
Obiit an[n]o do[min]i 1616. Ætatis 58. Die 23 Ap.

Shakespeare’s brother-in-law, William Hart, husband of his sister Joan (who survived till 1646), was buried in the same church on April 17, during the previous week.


LXIX. INTRODUCTORY MATTER TO THE SHAKESPEARE FOLIO (1628).

(A) Dedicatory Epistle of Heminge and CondelL to the Earls of Pembroke and Montgomery.


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