The web site of Shakespeare's Sonnets, Shakespeare's
Monument.
HAKESPEARE'S ONNETS
This is part of the web site of Shakespeare's
sonnets
Shakespeare's Monument in Holy Trinity
Church, Stratford-on-Avon.
Ivdicio Pylium, genio Socratem, arte
Maronem,
Terra tegit, Populus Maeret, Olympus habet
STAY PASSENGER, WHY GOEST THOV BY SO
FAST?
READ IF THOV CANST, WHOM ENVIOVS DEATH HATH PLAST
WITH IN THIS MONVMENT SHAKSPEARE: WITH WHOME,
QVICK NATVRE DIDE: WHOSE NAME, DOTH DECK YS TOMBE,
FAR MORE, THEN COST: SIEH ALL, YT HE HATH WRITT,
LEAVES LIVING ART, BVT PAGE, TO SERVE HIS WITT.
Obit ano do 1616
Aetatis*53 Die 23 Apr.
The Latin inscription translates as:
The Judgment of Nestor, The Genius of
Socrates, The Art of Virgil: The Earth Encloses, The People Sorrow, Olympus
Possesses.