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

Epigrams. 165645. On Bice.Bice laughs when no man speaks, ancf doth protestIt is his own breech there that breaks the jest.646. Valiant in Drink.Who onely in his Cups will fight, isA clock that must be oil'd wel ere itlikestrike.647. Master and Scholler.A Pedant ask'd a Puny ripe and bold,In an hard frost, the Latine word for cold:I'l tellyou out of hand (quoth he) for lo,/ have it at my fingers ends, you know.648. Casters great belly.Gaster did seem to me to want his eyes,For he could neither see his legs nor thighs ;But yetit was not so ;he had his sight,Onely his belly hanged in his light.'#?!;> sr."trt#i8 aftfoct dL mO649. Drunken Dick.When Dick for want of drunken mates grows sick,Then with himself to work goes faithfull Dick.The buttery dore t'himself he shutteth closeThat done, then goes the pot straight wayes ?o's nose :,A health (quoth noble Dick) each hogs-head thanMust seeming pledge this honest faithfull man :