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

Epigrams. 171669. Spinus his choyce.Spinus would wed, but he would have a wenchThat hath all tongues, Italian, Spanish, French,But I disswade him ;for if she hath any,She hath enough, if two, she hath two too many.670. Backbiters.When Codrus catches fleas, what e'r he ailes,He kils them with his teeth, not with his nails ;Saying, that man by man may blamelesse go,If every one would use Backbiters so.671. In Salonum.Oft in the night Salonus is inclin'd,To rise and pisse, and does as oft break wind :IPs Urinall be glasse, as 'tis no doubt,I wonder it so many cracks holds outThe filthiest,672. In Leonatum.the fowlest, deformedst lasse,That is, will be, I think or ever was,Leonatus loves ;wherewith should she him draw,Except as she's like jet,he be like straw?673. Nosce teipsum.Walking and meeting one not long ago,I ask't who 'twas, he said he did not know :I said, I know thee ;so said he, I you,But he that knows himselfe I never knew.