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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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84. Our Grandames infirmities.

Earth had her dropsie in th'all-drowning Flood,
And now expects her burning Feaver neare:
Her Plurisies effusions are of blood
By wars: her Agues, tremblings of her Spheare:
Which whether yet it proove vertiginous
With round rotations, aske Copernicus,
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