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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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45. Gods Image.

Likenesse breedes love; and therefore God did make
Man as his Image, that he thence might take
A deare occasion in deepe love to fall
With his high Lord, whose grace surmounts to all.
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