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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
Bancroft, Thomas (fl. 1633-1658)

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The First Booke of Epigrammes.
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The second Booke of Epigrammes.

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3. To the same.

Though Epigrammes be but a curter kind
Of Satyres, striking on as sharpe a string,
To Dysticks or Tetrasticks doe not bind
My free-borne Muse, for youth would have his swing,
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