| John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919. |
| NUMBER: | 2791 |
| AUTHOR: | John Milton (1608–1674) |
| QUOTATION: | What needs my Shakespeare for his honour’d bones,— The labour of an age in piled stones? Or that his hallow’d relics should be hid Under a star-y-pointing pyramid? Dear son of memory, great heir of fame, What need’st thou such weak witness of thy name? |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Epitaph on Shakespeare. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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