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Two bookes of epigrammes, and epitaphs

Dedicated to two top-branches of gentry: Sir Charles Shirley, Baronet, and William Davenport, Esquire. Written by Thomas Bancroft
Bancroft, Thomas (fl. 1633-1658)

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The First Booke of Epigrammes.
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The second Booke of Epigrammes.

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121. The World.

The World's a Forrest, (maim'd with fatall strokes)
Where Wolves and Foxes are wilde youths desires,
Where dead men Ashes are, the living, Oakes;
And Cats and Women are but scratching Bryers.
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