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On Shakespear
What needs my Shakespear for his honour’d Bones,
The labour of an age in piled Stones,
Or that his hallow’d reliques should be hid
Under a Star-ypointing Pyramid?
Dear son of memory, great heir of Fame,
What need’st thou such weak witnes of thy name?
Thou in our wonder and astonishment
Hast built thy self a live-long Monument.
For whilst toth’ shame of slow-endeavouring art,
Thy easie numbers flow, and that each heart
Hath from the leaves of thy unvalu’d Book,
Those Delphick lines with deep impression took
Then thou our fancy of it self bereaving,
Dost make us Marble with too much conceaving;
And so Sepulcher’d in such pomp dost lie,
That Kings for such a Tomb would wish to die.
– John Milton
19th May – On This Day In History
Born:
1918 Florence Chadwick (first to swim the English Channel both ways)
Died:
1526 Anne Boleyn (Queen of England and wife of Henry VIII – beheaded)
On This Day:
2016 Egyptair Flight MS804 goes missing between Cairo and Paris
Have a good Saturday, 19th May
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24th March – On This Day In History
Born:
1874 Harry Houdini (escape artist)
Died:
1603 Elizabeth I (Queen of England, The Virgin Queen)
On This Day:
1924 Greece becomes a republic
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