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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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179. Of humane life.

If life be but a thread, then why may not
Sharpe misery be th'needle, death the knot?