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

126 Epigrams.The quarrell first began about a word,Which now should be decided by the sword :But e're they drew, there fell that alteration,As they grew friends again by disputation.463. Love and Liberty.Love he that will ;To have my neck from loves yoke free.it best likes me464. To a neat Reader.Thou say'st my verses are rude, ragged, ruffe,Not like some others rimes, smooth dainty stuffe ;Epigrams are like Satyrs, rough without,Like Chesnuts sweet, take thou the kernel out..SVBT.> srffciivfg xttY/.k465. Of Letting.In bed a young man with his old wife lay,O wife, quoth he, I've let a thing to day,By which I fear, I am a loser much :His wife repryes, youths bargains still are such ;So turning from him angry at her heart,She unawares let out a thundringO wife, quoth he, no loser am I now,A marvelous saver I am made by you ;Young men that old wives "have may never sell,Because old wives, quoth he, let things so well.466. Sublata causa &*c.Why studies Silvester no more the laws,!Tis thought Duck-lane has tane away the cause.