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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

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217. The English, too like the French.

A Writer, skill'd in Constellations, notes
That England is ore-rul'd by Mercury:
Which I beleeve, for Delos-like it floats
In the wav'd humours of inconstancy.