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

..Epigrams. 119427. On a Pudding.The end of all, and in the end,the praise of all depends.A Pudding merits double praise,because it hath two ends.428. Answer.A pudding hath two ends ?you lye my brother,For itbegins at one, and ends at th'other.'>: . JOOe'j'i 1.429. Si nihil attuleris, ibis, 6.Planus, an honest swaine, but moneylesse,Besought a Lawyer to be good unto him,Who either (gratis] must his cause redresse,Or promise what he never meant to do him.Being asked why he careless lingred it ?Made this reply, Ex nihilo nihil fit.430. On Maids.Most maids resemble Eve now in their lives,Who are no sooner women, then th'are wives ;As Eve knew no man, ere fruitwrought her wo ;So these have fruit oft e're their husbands know.431. Vt ceddit surgit.Now Martha married is, shee'l brave it out,Though ne'r so needy known to all about ;And reason good, she rise once in her life,That fell so oft before she was a wife.