Social Commentaries
To Humphrey Okeover, Esquire
From Two Bookes of Epigrammes, and Epitaphs (1639), Book I
Social Commentaries
I sometimes heard a kind of Prophesie,
That your name should in faire Longevity
Equall the Tree of Iove: which may it bide
Like Royall Cedar, never putrifi'd,
Nor otherwise impair'd; so sound a fame
To you I wish, and your well-timber'd name.
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Bancroft, Thomas. “To Humphrey Okeover, Esquire.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/bancroft/142/.
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Bancroft, Thomas. “To Humphrey Okeover, Esquire.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/bancroft/142/.
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