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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49. An Epitaph on Mistresse Anne Roberts of Naylston.
Stay, Passenger, and see thy journies end,Take sorrow in thy way, and kindly spend
One pearly teare, t'inrich this Monument,
Which a sole Sonne to a deare Mother lent:
Whose life (her Countries losse) did still abound
With fruits of grace, to be with glory crown'd;
And (as these Letters, which her worth containe)
Was fairely white, without black vices staine:
But lifes best treasure wastfull time will spend;
Goe, passenger, thou seest thy journies end.
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