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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

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109. On deafe Joan, the Ale-wife.

She prates to others, yet can nothing heare,
Iust like a sounding Iugge, that wants an eare.