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

128 Epigrams*If true (quothWill) the world no such affords.And that it's true, I durst his warrant be ;For ne'r heard I of woman good or ill,But alwayes loved best her owhe sweet will.471. Ad Tusserum.Tusser, they tell me when thou wert alive,Thou teaching thrift, thy self couldst never thrive ;So like the whetstone many men are wontTo sharpen others when themselves are blunt.472. Prastal videri quam esst.Clitus with clients is well customed,That hath the Lawes but little studied ;No matter Clitus, so they bring their fees,How ill the case and thy advice agrees.473. Tune tua res agitur.A jealous Merchant that a Sailor met,As.k'd him the reason why he meant to marry,Knowingwhat ill their absence might beget,That still at sea, constrained are to tarry ?Sir (quoth the saylor) think you that so strange ?;Tis done the time whiles you but walke th'exchang474. On Skoles.Skoles stinks so deadly, that his breeches loathHis dampish buttocks furthermore to cloath :Cloyd they are up with Arse ;but hope, and blastWill whirle about, and blow them thence at last.