Far more than cost; sith all yt he hath writt
Leaves living art but page to serve his witt.

Obiit Ano Do 1616
Etatis 53, die 23 Ap.

Shakespeare's widow died on August 6, 1623, and was buried near the poet inside the chancel; Mrs. Susanna Hall, the elder daughter, died on July 11, 1649, and was buried beside her husband, who pre-deceased her in 1635; the inscription on her tombstone (cp. accompanying illustration) is especially noteworthy; Judith, the younger daughter, died at Stratford on February 9, 1661-2; Elizabeth, the poet's only grandchild, was married in 1626 to Thomas Nash, who died in 1647, and after his death, to Sir John Barnard of Abingdon, near Northampton; she died on the 17th of February, 1669-70, leaving no issue by either marriage. The three children of Judith Shakespeare died young: no one of them attained to man's estate. On the death of Lady Barnard the heir to the Henley Street property was Thomas Hart, the grandson of the poet's sister Joan-the last of the Hart family, in the male line, being John Hart, who died in 1800.

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1619. In this year died Richard Burbage, the famous actor, Shakespeare's life-long friend. An elegy on Mr Richard Burbage an excellent both painter and player," composed soon after his death, recorded his chief Shakespearian rôles :

"Some skilful limner aid me; if not so,

Some sad tragedian help to express my woe;
But, oh! he's gone, that could the best both limn
And act my grief; and it is only him
That I invoke this strange assistance to it,
And on the point intreat himself to do it;
For none but Tully Tully's praise can tell,
And as he could no man could do so well
This part of sorrow for him, nor here show
So truly to the life this map of woe,

COPIES OF THE INSCRIPTIONS ON THE GRAVESTONES OF THE SHAKESPEARE FAMILY.

NEESS LYSTS ▼ BODY OF STRANDA
WIPE TO JOHN BALL GENT: ? DAVOR
ERB OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, GENT:
..
SHES DECTAARD # 11 09 SVLY,
200, LOED C

Witty above her seze, but that's not all
Wise to Salvation was good Mistries Hall
Something of Shakespeare was in that, but thin
Wholy of bus with whom she's now in blisse.

Then. Passenger ba't 're a tears,
To weep with her that wept with all
That wept, yet set herself to chere
Them up with comforts cordiall
ller løve shall live, her marcy spread.
When then he's ae're a feare to shed

Fata manent ownen, bene non virtute carentera.
Hallins bie situs est medica celeberrimus arto, at neque divitila, abstulit atra dies.
Expectans regni gaudia leta Del. Abstulit, et referet lux ultima; siste, vinter,
Dignus erat meritis qui Nestors naceres als of perttura pareng male paris perta
la terris omnes and repit æqua dies
Ka tumalo quid dealt, adest &dissima conjun
Et vita comitem nunc quoque mortis habet.

That grief's true picture which his loss hath bred.
He's gone, and with him what a world is dead,
Which he revived; to be revived so

No more: young Hamlet, old Hieronimo,
King Lear, the grieved Moor, and more beside
That lived in him, have now for ever died.
Oft have I seen him leap into the grave,
Suiting the person (that he seemed to have)
Of a sad lover with so true an eye,

That then I would have sworn he meant to die.
Oft have I seen him play this part in jest
So lively, that spectators and the rest

Of his sad crew, whilst he but seemed to bleed,
Amazed thought even that he died indeed.

And did not knowledge check me, I should swear
Even yet it is a false report I hear,

And think that he that did so truly feign

Is still but dead in jest, to live again;

But now he acts this part, not plays, 'tis known;
Others he played, but acted hath his own."

In this year were published a second edition of Merry Wives and a fourth edition of Pericles.

1622. Othello first printed, as a quarto, and new editions (the sixth) of Richard III. and I Henry IV.

1623. In this year, under the editorship of Shakespeare's fellow-actors and friends, John Heming and Henry Condell, appeared The First Folio, containing twenty hitherto unprinted plays:-The Tempest, The Two Gentlemen, Measure for Measure, Taming of the Shrew, Comedy of Errors, As You Like It, All's Well, Twelfth Night, Winter's Tale, King John, 1, 2, 3 Henry VI., Henry VIII., Coriolanus, Timon, Julius Cæsar, Macbeth, Antony and Cleopatra and Cymbeline.

The play of Troilus and Cressida, though included in the First Folio, was omitted in the table of contents (cp. Preface to Troilus and Cressida).

The editors evidently purposely omitted Pericles (first

EXTERIOR OF CHURCH AT STRATFORD-ON-AVON.