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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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198. A Prince and a Parasite.

Like Cleopatra suckling of a Snake
Is that unhappy Prince, that much doth make
Of a base Parasite, that baskes in sinne,
And folds infection in a Lizards skinne.
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