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

io8Epigrams.But sith our Church him disciplin'd so sore,He (rank Recusant) comes to Church no more.371. On Gdla.Gdla is light,and like a Candle wasteth,Even to the snuffe, that stinketh more itlasteth.372. On I. Lipsius who bequeathed his Gown to the V. Mary.A dying Latinist of great renown,Unto the Virgin Mary gave his Gown ;And was not this false Latine so to joynWith female gender, the case masculine ?373. On two striving together.Two falling out, into a ditch they fell,Their fallirg out was ill ;but in, was well.374. A Lawyers Will.A Lawyer being sick and extreame ill,Was moved by his friends to make his Will,Which soon he did, gave all the wealth he hadTo frantick persons, lunatick and mad ;And to his friends this reason did reveale \(That they might see, with equity hee'd deal)From mad mens hands I did my wealth receive,Therefore that wealth to mad mens hands I leave.375. Youth and Age.Age is deformed, Youth unkinde,We scorn their bodies, they our minde.