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

'Epigrams. ,117418. On fine apparell.Some that their wives may neat and cleanly go,Do all their substance upon them bestow :But who a Gold-finch fain would make his wife,Makes her perhaps a Wag-tail all her life.419. Vpon Conscience.Many men this present age dispraise,And think men have small conscience now adays ;But sure,II lay no such fault to their charge,I rather think their conscience is too large.420. Dicta prcedicta.Buttus breaks jests on any thing that's spoken,Provided alwayes, they before are broken.421. On Vmber.Vmber was painting of a lyon fierce,And working it, by chance from Vmbers ErseFlew out a crack, so mighty, that the fart,(AsVmber swears) did make his Lyon start.jam K l>'yn/i JL. or!T422. In Cornutum.Cornutus call'd his wife both whore and slut,Quoth she, you'l never leave your brawling butBut what quoth he ?quoth she, the post or door,For you have horns to butt, if I'me a whore.