Facetiae : Musarum deliciae, or, The Muses recreation, conteining ...

* The fourth line in ed. 1641 runs thus :Epigrams. 95For out of doors you ne'r by day appear,What, is a Sergeant such a huge Bug-bear ?*308. A Foolish Qucrie.How rich a man is, all desire to know ;But none inquires ifgood he be or no.309. On the King of Sweden* Picture.Who but the half of this neat Picture drew,That it could ne're be fully done, well knew.310. B. y. answer to a Thief bidding him stand.Fly villain hence, or by thy coat of steel,I'le make thy heart my brazen bullet feel,And send that thrice as theevish soule of thineTo hell, to wear the Devils Valentine.311. Thief s reply.Art thou great Ben ? or the revived ghostOf famous Shakespeare ? or some drunken host?Who being tipsie with thy muddy beer,Dost think thy rimes shall daunt my soule with fear ?Nay know base Slave, that I am one of thoseCan take a purse as well in verse as prose ;And when th' art dead write this upon thy herse,Here lyes a Poet that was rob'd in verse.Since last you lost i'th pillory your eare.