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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57. On a French Knight, and Mistris Wolsley.
A wanton Knight, borne, wed, and curst in France,Came to our English Court, and there by chance
Wooes, and re-weds a faire and vertuous Maid:
Which wrong of love being by time bewray'd,
He (lest his Weddings Destiny should turne
To Hanging) leaves his second choice to mourne:
Who Wife, nor Widow, Maid nor Whore doth prove.
What is she then? a Quintessence in love.
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