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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45. To Master Farnaby.
Sith by the labour of thy smoothing handWe thinke we doe rough Persius understand,
The Criticke-vext Petronius, Iuvenal,
The full-mouth'd Maro, witty Martial,
The Tragedies of high-strain'd Seneca,
The noble Lucans brave Pharsalia,
With the wise Morals of the Stagyrite,
And Epigrammes which Grecian Muses write:
We ne're shall recompence thy paine; but Fame
Will cracke her Trumpet for't, and sound thy Name.
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