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,op.-i86Epigrams.739..,.,Philomathcs once studying to indite,Nibled his fingers,and his nailes did bite :By this I know not what he did intend,Unlesse his wit lay at his fingers end.740. &Z//0 ^ 2V00&/ oportet.Janus doth jesting, use Equivocation,Which he alludes as doubtfull words of Art,To hide the colour of his occupation,But to the Devil he bears an honest heart.741. damans Asinus.Who says Tiww Tipstaffe is no man of calling ?Can any Cryer at Sessions be more bawling ?742. Vpon Dunmo.I Dunrnv ask'd as we at supper sate,How long he had liv'd in the married state,Sir, just (quoth Dunmo) with my wife I metIn the great Plague time, I remember yet,And sighing, as he would have burst in twain,Said, now almost the thirtieth of her raign.to743. ^ 7J7W Tolthams Nose.The radiant colour of Tom Toltkam's nose,Puts down the Lilly, and obscures the rose ;