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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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168. Evacuation of the foure humours.

Mans head is purg'd (as Galens sonnes declare)
Of Blood and Phlegme by th'Nose, and by the Haire
Of melancholicke drosse; but choler will
Have him by th'eares, and that way vents her ill.
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