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

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

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.134 Epigrams.499. On Marriage.Wedding and hanging the Destinies dispatch,But hanging seems to some the better match..590. Vidua aurata.Callus hath got a widow wondrous old,The reason is he woo'd her for her gold:Knowing her Maids are young and serve for hire,Which is as much as Callus doth desire..,ii r i*O? i "'. t& ''501. In Dol prczgnantem.Dol learning Propria qua maribus without Book,Like Nomen crescentis genitivo doth look.502. Timidos fortuna repellit.When Miles the Serving-man my Lady kist,She knew him not (though scarcely could resist)For this (quoth he) my Master bid me say ;How's that (quoth she) and frowning flings away :Vext to the heart, she took her marke amisse,And that she should a serving creature kisse.Whythus it is when fools must make it known,They come on others businesse, not their own.503. Against a certainFor mad-men Bedlam, Bridewell for a KnaveChoose whether of those two th'adst rather have.

Epigrams. 135504. Loves progresse.Loves first approach, delights sweet song doth sing :But in departure, she woes sting doth bring.505. On old Scylla.Scytta is toothlesse, yet when she was young,She had both teeth enough, and too much tongue.What shall I then of toothlesse Scylla say,But that her tongue hath worn her teeth away ?506. On Gallants cloaks.Without, plain cloath :; within, plusht but I doubtThe wearer's worst within, and best without.507. On Banks the Vsurer.Banks feels no lamenesse of his knotty Gout,His money travels for him in and out :And though the soundest legs go every day,He toils to be at Hell as soon as they.508. Pacunia prcevalens.Tell Tom of Plate?s worth or Aristotles ?Hang't, give him wealth enough ;let wit stop bottles.509. On the same.Tom vow'd to beat his boy against the wall,And as he struck, he forthwith caught -a fall :The boy deriding, said, I do aver,Y'have done a thing, you cannot stand to sir.

Epigrams. 135504. Loves progresse.Loves first approach, delights sweet song doth sing :But in departure, she woes sting doth bring.505. On old Scylla.Scytta is toothlesse, yet when she was young,She had both teeth enough, and too much tongue.What shall I then of toothlesse Scylla say,But that her tongue hath w<strong>or</strong>n her teeth away ?506. On Gallants cloaks.Without, plain cloath :; within, plusht but I doubt<strong>The</strong> wearer's w<strong>or</strong>st within, and best without.507. On Banks the Vsurer.Banks feels no lamenesse of his knotty Gout,His money travels f<strong>or</strong> him in and out :And though the soundest legs go every day,He toils to be at Hell as soon as they.508. Pacunia prcevalens.Tell Tom of Plate?s w<strong>or</strong>th <strong>or</strong> Aristotles ?Hang't, give him wealth enough ;let wit stop bottles.509. On the same.Tom vow'd to beat his boy against the wall,And as he struck, he f<strong>or</strong>thwith caught -a fall :<strong>The</strong> boy deriding, said, I do aver,Y'have done a thing, you cannot stand to sir.

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