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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

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60. To a Musitian, on his hurt finger.

Thy Lute, that late seem'd in a desperate case,
(Like a torne vagrant without Hat or Band)
May hope to have its Treble match the Base,
Sith thy hurt finger's on the mending hand.