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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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32. To Amoret.

How manlesse is thy dotage, to adore
That gilded rottennesse, that poison'd core
Of swelling prides Aposteme! Must therefore
Thou be a sheepe, 'cause shee's a Goatish Whore?