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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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139. On a good Phisitian over-match't with an ill wife.

All Hearbs that painefull Dioscorides,
Or Theophrast, or twenty such as these
Have ere described, his vast Learning knowes,
Yet almost hath forgot where Hearts-ease growes.