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

Epigrams. 153592. Quid non ebridas ?Rubin reports, his Mirtriss is a Punk :Which being told her, was no wit dismaid,For sure as death (quoth she) the Villains drunk,And in that taking, knows what he said.'Twas well excus'd, but oft it comes to passe,That true we find, In vino veritas.593. No Paints, no Games.If little labour, little are our gaines,Mans fortunes are according to his paines.-"'rw594. Infirmis animosus.Pontus by no means from his coyn departs,Z'foot, will youhave of men more than their hearts ?595. A culina ad curiam.Lixa, that long a Serving-groom hath been,Will now no more the man be known or seen :And reason good, he hath the place resign'd-j^Witness his cloak, throughout with Velvet lin'd,Which by a Paradox comes thus to passe ;The greasie Gull is turn'd a gallant asse.596. Frustra vocaveris heri.Z?/V-had but two words to maintain him ever,And that was Stand, and after stand Deliver.But Dick's in Newgate, and he fears shall neverBe blest again with that sweet word, Deliver.