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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14. The Usurer.
He puts forth money as the Hangman sowesHis fatall Hempe-seed, that with curses growes:
That doth in Hell the Harvest-home proclaime:
For which deepe reason my poore Muse preserues
This suite, that Poets ne're prove Usurers.
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