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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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58. To the Slanderer, Stinks.

Could I but worke a Transformation strange
On thee, whose malice pricks and rankles so,
I would thy Carrion to a Thistle change,
Which Asses baite upon, and Rusticks mow.
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