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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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92. On the same.

Woman was once a Ribbe, (as Truth hath said)
Else, sith her tongue runnes wide from every point,
I should have dream'd her substance had beene made
Of Adams whirle-bone, when it was out o'th' joynt.
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