Rosa Grindon Bequest

Manchester Central Library.

 

The inscription in the middle is from Act IV, Scene I, of Shakespeare's play The Tempest, where Prospero says:

 

"The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces,

The solemn temples, the great globe itself,

Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve,

And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,

Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff

As dreams are made on; and our little life

Is rounded with a sleep."

Done