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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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85. Of Warre.

War's like a curst wife, whence a man may cull
Some fruites of goodnesse, (though of mischiefe full:)
For those land-surfeits wanton peace doth breed,
Warre by incision cures, when Kingdomes bleed.
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