What does William Shakespeare's memorial say?

Answer 1

Judicio Pylium, genio Socratem, arte Maronem

Terra tegit, populus moeret, Olympus habet.

Stay, passenger, why goest thou by so fast?

Read, if thou canst, whom envious death hath placed

Within this monument: Shakespeare, with whom

Quick nature doed; whose name doth deck his tomb

Far more than cost; sith all that he had writ

Leaves living art but page to serve his wit.

Obiit ano doi [anno domini] 1616. Aetatis 53. Die 23 Ap.

That's what is written on the memorial, the statue of Shakespeare which his widow and daughters erected and placed on the wall of the church above his grave, which contains a different and much more famous inscription.