Death & Dying

An Epitaph on Captaine Knyveton

by Thomas Bancroft fl. 1633–1658

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

Death & Dying

HEre lyes a Traveller, (that least would lye)
One that in Belgia, France, and Tuscany,
With other Regions of remoter site,
In a progressive warfare tooke delight;
But being now with Peace more highly blest,
Hath laid his Musket by, and here's his Rest.

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Bancroft, Thomas. “An Epitaph on Captaine Knyveton.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/bancroft/55/.

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Bancroft, Thomas. “An Epitaph on Captaine Knyveton.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/bancroft/55/.

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