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

196 Epigrams.782. Good sawce.I went to sup with Cinna th'other night,And to say true (for give the Devil his right)Though scant of meat we could a morsell get,Yet there with store of passing sawce we met,You ask what sawce, where pittance was so small ?This, is not hunger the best sawce of all ?783. To a Lawyer.To go to law, I have no maw,Although my suite be sure,For I shall lack suits to my back,Ere Imy suit procure.784. Semel insanivimus.Bedlam fate bless thee, thou wantst nought but wit,And having gotten that, we'r freed from it ;Bridewell, I cannot any way dispraise thee,For thou dost feed the poor, and jerk the lazie.Newgate, of thee I cannot much complain ;For once a moneth, thou freest men out of pain ;But from the Counters, goodnesse it self defend us ?To Bedlam, Bridewell, or to Newgate send us,For there in time, wit, work, or law sets free ;But here wit, work, nor law gets liberty.785. Of himself e.Some men there be, which say of me,That I am not a Poet;They say well, why ?I write the truth ;I do not lye,I know it.o