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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181. To Bertholdus Swart, Inventor of the Gun.
Berthold, thou aptly wast sirnamed Swart,From the blacke mischiefe, which thy darkesome Art
First brought to light: whereat the Furies frowne
To see their torturing Engines all put downe
By one of thine, whose thunder made to shake
Hels deepest ground-worke, and the Divels quake;
Yea, mightiest armies hath to spoilefull death
Sent with a powder, and depriv'd of breath
More then all Mars his brondirons ere did kill,
Yet gapes for prey, and roares from slaughter still.
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