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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201. Mans gradation.
We climbe the slippery staire of Infancy,Of Childhood, Youth, of middle age; and then
Decline, grow old, decrepit, bed-rid lye,
Bending to infant-weaknesse once agen;
And to our Cophines (as to Cradles goe,
That at the staire-foot stand, and stint our woe.
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