Social Commentaries
To Iohn Gell, Esquire
From Two Bookes of Epigrammes, and Epitaphs (1639), Book I
Social Commentaries
If Gell from Gellius come, your pedegree
May (like a Pike) be trayl'd from Italy:
Whose farre-fam'd valour the remotest parts
Of Earth hath wonne, as you a world of hearts.
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Bancroft, Thomas. “To Iohn Gell, Esquire.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/bancroft/184/.
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Bancroft, Thomas. “To Iohn Gell, Esquire.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/bancroft/184/.
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