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

Epigrams. 105356. As proud as witlesse Dracus.Dracus his head is highly by him born,And so by straws are empty heads of corn.t357. Saltern videretur.A Welshman and an Englishman disputed,Which of their lands maintain'd the greatest state ;The Englishman the Welshman quite confuted,Yet would the Welshman nought his brags abate,Ten cooks, quoth he, in Wales one wedding fees,Truth, quoth the other, each man tosts his cheese.358. Knowing and not knowing.Cosmus by custome taunts each man,And yet can nought of reason scan,How can that be, when who knows leastKnows he should wise be, that would jest:Then thus no further I allow,That Cosmus knows, but knows not how.359. Stupid Birnis.Sith time flyes fast away, his safest flightBinus prevents with dreaming day and night.360. Postrcma pessima.Cacus in's cunning ne'r so prov'd o'r-reachtAs now at last, who must be halter-stretcht.