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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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189. The Ægyptian Isthmus.

Were Ægypts Isthmus cut, the Natives feare
The angry Red-sea to the ground would beare
Their Pyramids, and men like sheepe would dye
Of the Red water, stain'd with cruelty.
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