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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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49. On the same.

Rich Worldlings are poore Snakes, sustain'd alone
With shining dust, and downe to basenesse throwne.