Quotation by Shakespeare

But this eternal blazon must not be
To ears of flesh and blood.
William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Ghost, in Hamlet, act 1, sc. 5, l. 21-2.

Refusing to describe to Hamlet his afterlife; "eternal blazon" means revelation of eternal things.
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