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

AD LECTOREM.THis little Book is like a furnish't Feast,And hath a dish, I hope, to please each guest ;Here thou may'st finde some good and solid fare :If thou lov'st pleasant junkets, here they are ;Perhaps sharp sawces take thee most ;if so,I have cook't for thee some sharp sawces too ;But if thy squeamish stomach can like none,No body hinders thee ;thou may'st be gone.Lines prefixed to the Third EditionThis last Edition of my Book, may someThink not much finer, then the former one ;5But let them search itthroughly and they! findeMany that were before, come now behinde :Nay, thus much more I dare averre for it,That, 'tis the only book for mirth and wit.