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

1 1 8 Epigrams.423. A witty passage.An old man sitting at a Christmasse feast,By eating Brawn occasioned a jest ;For whilst his tongue and gums chased about,For want of pales the chased bore broke out ;And lights perchance upon a handsome lasse,That neer him at the Table placed was ;Which when she spy'd, she pluck'd out of her sleeveA pin, and did it to the old man give ;Saying, sith your brawn out of your mouth doth slip,Sir take this pin, and therewith close your lip ;And bursting into laughter, strain'd so much,As with that strain her back-part spake low-dutch :Which th'old man hearing, did the pin restore ;And bad her therewith close her postern door.424. On Cob.Cob clouts his shooes, and as the story tels,His thumb-nayls par'd afford him sparables.425. Omnia pariter.Ralph reads a line or two, and then cryes mew ;Deeming all else according to those few ;Thou might'st have thought and prov'd a wiser Lad,(As Joan her fooding bought) some good, some bad.426. A new marry ed Bride.The first of all our sex came from the side of Man,I thither am return'd from whence I came.