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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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101. To the Lord Uerulam.

Had I a tongue of all Frier Bacons brasse,
Which should (they say) have wal'd this Iland round,
I scarcely could how deepe thy knowledge was,
With all the strength of such an Organ sound

Fame cannot do't, her trumpet it would split:
Why then should words blow wind on such a wit?
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