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

Epigrams.in387. Content.Content is all we aim at with our store ;If that be had with little, what needs more ?388. Fast and loose.Paphus was marry'd all in hast,And now to rack doth run ;So knitting of himselfe too fast,He hath himselfe undone.389. Tortus.Tortus accus'd to lye, to fawn, to flatter,Said he but set a good face on the matter ;Then sure he borrow'd it, for 'tis well known,Tortus ne're wore a good face of his own.If .;.JM,39' On Raspe.Raspe plays at Nine holes ;and 'tis known he getsMany a Teaster by his game, and bets ;But of his gettings there's but little signe ;When one hole wasts more then he gets by nine.391. Impar impares odit.Sotus hates wise men, for himselfe is none,And fools he hates, because himselfe is one.