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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

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133. To Iohn Milward Esquire:

Though natures force for such a brothers fate
Your teares exact, yet cease to macerate
Your selfe: the water-Nymphs enough for all
Will weep, and keep a fluent funerall.