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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104. Iphtah, meeting his Daughter after Victory.
Ah ruthfull object, that doth dartA thousand horrours to my heart!
Poore harmelesse haplesse child! must thou
Make good thy Fathers ill-made vow?
And shall I such rash breathful full?
Deare Heaven avert it. Yet J will,
And must, although with trembling hands
I shake in sunder natures bands.
But to thy memory each day
Full summes of sorrows must I pay,
And when salt teares have drain'd mine eyes,
Make Fountaines poore with fresh supplyes.
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