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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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184. Maides and Wives.

Maides are white papers, which no hand did bind:
But wives are blotted bookes, and interlin'd.