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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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124. An Epitaph on Mris. Hope Alford.

Keep off, prophaner feete; here sleeping lyes
A sacred Nimph, that vertue did adore,
And treasur'd all the blessings of the skies:
Whose well-fraught vessell, hasting to the shore,
Strucke deepe into these Sands: but with a tyde
Of glory shall be rais'd, and stellifi'd.
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