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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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214. To Iohn Gell, Esquire.

If Gell from Gellius come, your pedegree
May (like a Pike) be trayl'd from Italy:
Whose farre-fam'd valour the remotest parts
Of Earth hath wonne, as you a world of hearts.
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