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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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78. No truth in the World.

False-hearted Laban, in faire Rachels stead,
Put bleare-ey'd Leah on his patient friend:
So though the World much blisse hath promised,
With blind conceite it gulls us in the end.
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