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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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14. The Usurer.

He puts forth money as the Hangman sowes
His fatall Hempe-seed, that with curses growes:

So grows his damn'd wealth, in the Devils name,
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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