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

'Epigrams.1 8 1That in a window stood ;but I acquainted,Told him it was no wooden sign was painted,But Madam Meretrix : yea, true, said he,Yet 'tisa little sign of modesty.717. Tandem manifestum.Katharine that hid those candles out of sight,May well conceive they! come at length to light.,-jcMO718. Qui ebrius laudat temperantiam.Severus likes not these unseason'd linesOf rude absurdities, times foul abuse,To "all posterities, and their assignes,That might have been (saith he) to better use.What senselesse gull, but reason may convince,Or jade so dull, but being kick'd will wince ? ."\..J.Ui.' ..i719. Quantum mutatus ab illo.Would any deem Manasses now the man,.n ^That whilome was not worth a wooden kan :Doubtlesse the Dunce in something doth surpasse,Yet his red nose is still the same it was..:?v? ,cc*8 /x>720. On wisdome ana vertue..*/! V .j.^akiWise-men are wiser than good-men, what then ?Tis better to be wiser than wise men.