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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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28. To Thomas May of Sutton-Cheney, Gentleman.

Sweet Tom, that (like that Minion Earine,
Whose Beauty great Domitian held divine)
Dost in thy name the youth and pleasure beare,
Beauty and lovelinesse of all the yeare;
Yet in thy gall-lesse temper dost imply
More sweetnesse, than that Name doth signifie:
My true heart loves thee, (what can more be said?)
Were I but Iove, thou wert my Ganymed.
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