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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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61. An Epitaph on Captaine Knyveton.

Here lyes a Traveller, (that least would lye)
One that in Belgia, France, and Tuscany,
With other Regions of remoter site,
In a progressive warfare tooke delight;
But being now with Peace more highly blest,
Hath laid his Musket by, and here's his Rest.
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