...the classical tradition.] From the Commendatory Verses in the First Folio by L. Digges. Shakespeare, at length thy pious Fellows give The world thy works...is rent, And Time dissolves thy Stratford Monument, 1 Stopped = checked. Here we alive shall view thee still.1 This book, When brass and marble fade, shall...

...at length thy pious fellowes give The world thy Workes : thy Workes, by which, out-live Thy Tombe, thy name must : when that stone is rent, And Time dissolves thy Stratford Moniment, There we alive shall view thee still. This Booke, When Brasse and Marble fade, shall make...

...Holy Trinity Church. To the Memory of the Deceased Author, Master William Shakespeare. Shakespeare, at length thy pious fellows give The world thy works:...marble fade, shall make thee look Fresh to all ages. Be sure, our Shakespeare, thou canst never die, But, crown'd with laurel, live eternally. L. Digges...

...handiwork in his poem 'To the Memory of the deceased Author, Master W. Shakespeare' : " Shake-speare, at length thy pious fellows give The world thy works:...Thy tomb, thy name must. When that stone is rent, *The colours are thus described by MH Spiehnann, 'Shakespeare's Portraiture', in Studies in the First...

...Holy Trinity Church. To the Memory of the Deceased Author, Master William Shakespeare. Shakespeare, at length thy pious fellows give The world thy works...marble fade, shall make thee look Fresh to all ages. • • • • • Be sure, our Shakespeare, thou canst never die, But, crown'd with laurel, live...

...memory of the deceased author MASTER W. SHAKESPEARE CHAKESPEARE.a» length thy pious fellows give О ow: for in companions That do converse and waste the time together, Whose souls do bear an egal yoke tme dissolves thy Stratford monument, Here we alive shall view thee still; this book, When brass and...

...The world thy Workes: thy workes by which, outlive Thy Tombe, thy name must; . . . . . . This booke, When Brass and Marble fade, shall make thee look Fresh to all Ages. d-7) 38 enterprise, and despite the repeated claims made for Shakespeare's canonical immortality, Digges,...

...Shakespeare of Stratford-uponAvon. 'When that stone is rent', Digges writes very instructively in 1623: And time dissolves thy Stratford Monument, Here we alive shall view thee still.37 Such tributes, of course, have wider, more general meanings than one can easily find in Shakespeare's...

...power.' Leonard Digges, in his commendatory lines, picked up on this when he wrote that the Folio, 'When brass and marble fade, shall make thee look / Fresh to all ages.' The marble of Shakespeare's monument endures virtually unchanged in Stratford; the plays of the Folio...

...words of the poem they commissioned from Leonard Digges for their Folio have stood the test of time: 'This book, | When brass and marble fade, shall make thee look | Fresh to all ages.' All's Well That Ends Well is perhaps true to its title, after all. NICK DE SOMOGYI 'Read it again':...