Inscription:
Прекрасное прекрасней / во сто крат, / увенчанное правдой / драгоценной! / ВИЛЬЯМ / ШЕКСПИР / O- how much more doth beauty / beauteous seem / By that sweet ornament / which truth doth give!
Design:
inscriptions in Russian and English; from Shakespeare's 54th sonnet as translated into Russian by Samuil Marshak (1887-1964), and in the English