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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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6. Gods Bounty.

No mortall hath seene God, few heard him speake;
(Hence is their love so cold, their faith so weake:)
Yet all his goodnesse taste, which (like the shower
On Gideons Fleece) he on all flesh doth powre.