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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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197. To Iustice Much-ill.

You terme your selfe a Pillar of this Land,
As if our Realme on rotten propps did stand:
But who their Tenants to the quick will pare,
Not Pillars they, but Caterpillars are.
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