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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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241. Of the blessed Trinity.

Should I (as sometimes hath beene seene) behold
The King of Planets, with his beames of gold


Forming upon a Cloud, his Image bright,
And from those two, a third resulting light;
Jn such cleare objects should I seeme to see,
A shadow of th'all glorious Trinity.