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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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122. Against prophane jesting.

Let others scoffe, whose joyes are here at best;
I'm not for Hell in earnest, nor in jest.