Collection: Second Folio · 1632

These are our plays in the precise Second Folio sequence: comedies, (English) histories, and then tragedies.

The Second Folio made corrections to the First, many of which have been retained by modern editors.

John Milton contributed an epitaph, thought to be his first published poem.

What neede my Shakespeare for his honour'd bones,
The labour of an Age in piled stones
Or that his hallow’d Reliques should be hid
Under a starre-y pointing Pyramid?
Deare Sonne of Memory, great Heire of Fame,
What needst thou such dull witnesse of thy Name?
Thou in our wonder and astonishment
Hast built thy selfe a lasting Monument:
For whil’st to th’shame of slow-endevouring Art
Thy easie numbers flow, and that each part,
Hath from the leaves of thy unvalued Booke,
Those Delphicke Lines with deepe Impression tooke
Then thou our fancy of her selfe bereaving,
Dost make us Marble with too much conceiving,
And so Sepulcher’d in such pompe dost lie
That Kings for such a Tombe would wish to die.

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