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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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76. An Epitaph on the King of Sweden.

Here lies a sparkling Iem of honor, quencht
In deare effused blood, and sadly drencht
In a salt Ocean of inundant teares:
Yet lofty Fame (in clouds triumphing) beares
His name: that in more heavenly Poems like
Phœbus shall shine, and Austria Planet-strike.
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