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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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34. To the same.

You have a Genius pleas'd with Verse, (I heare)
That smoothly passeth through your cleansed eare,
As water of Pactôlus, where no stay,
Nor downe-fall interrupts his golden way:
For such your merits I your praise shall sing,
Whilst you still harpe on so divine a string.
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