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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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171. To Humphrey Okeover, Esquire.

I sometimes heard a kind of Prophesie,
That your name should in faire Longevity
Equall the Tree of Iove: which may it bide
Like Royall Cedar, never putrifi'd,
Nor otherwise impair'd; so sound a fame
To you I wish, and your well-timber'd name.
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