On SHAKESPEAR'S Monument at Stratford upon Avon. Thomas Seward Alexander Huber Editor Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
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Oxford This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. T131163 K104099.002 Dodsley, Robert, 1703-1764. A Collection of Poems in Six Volumes. By Several Hands. Vol. II. London printed by J. Hughs, for R. and J. Dodsley 1763 [1st ed. 1758] p. 300. 6v.: music; 8⁰.

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On SHAKESPEAR'S Monument at Strat ford upon Avon . By the Same . GREAT HOMER'S birth sev'n rival cities claim , Too mighty such monopoly of Fame ; Yet not to birth alone did HOMER owe His wond'rous worth ; what EGYPT could bestow , With all the schools of GREECE and ASIA join'd , Enlarg'd th' immense expansion of his mind . Nor yet unrival'd the MAEONIAN strain , The Milton . British Eagle , and the Mantuan Swan Tow'r equal heights . But happier STRATFORD , thou With incontested laurels deck thy brow : Thy Bard was thine unschool'd , and from thee brought More than all EGYPT , GREECE , or ASIA taught . Not HOMER'S self such matchless honours won ; The Greek has Rivals , but thy SHAKESPEAR none .