Social Commentaries

On a good Phisitian over-match't with an ill wife

by Thomas Bancroft fl. 1633–1658

From Two Bookes of Epigrammes, and Epitaphs (1639), Book I

Social Commentaries

All Hearbs that painefull Dioscorides,
Or Theophrast, or twenty such as these
Have ere described, his vast Learning knewes,
Yet almost hath forgot where Hearts-case growes.

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