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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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16. Another on the same.

Gentle Friends, with teares forbeare
To drowne a withered Flower here,
That, in Spring of Natures pride,
Dranke the Morning dew, and dy'd.
Death may teach you here to live,
And a friendly call doth give
To this humble house of mine,
Here's his Inne, and this the Signe.
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