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

182 Epigrams.721. On Ducus.^_* *_ "TDucus keeps house, and it with reason stands,That he keep house, hath sold away his lands.722. On Mysus and Mopsa.Mysus and Mopsa hardly could agree,Striving about superiority :The Text which saith that man and wife are one,Was the chief Argument they stood upon :She held, they both one woman should become ;He held, they should be man, and both but one.So they contended daily, but the strifeCould not be ended, till both were one wife.I met Photinus at the B-723. On Photinus.court,Cited (as he said) by a Knave relator :I ask'd him, wherefore ?he in laughing sort,Told me it was but for a childish matter.How e're he laught it out, he lied not ;Indeed 'twas childish, for the child he got.">< I724. On Castriotes.See, see, what love is now betwixt each fist,Since Castriotes had a scabby wrist :How kindly they, by clawing one another,As if the left hand were the right hands brother !