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

2 f2 Epigrams.Crave Phabus aid, call Homer with the throngOf all the Bardes, Learn'd Manes, to thy song.I dare not (Pato) be so bold, as do it,Nor seem so like what I am not :a Poet.My page invokes no deities here :love,And indignation the best Muses prove.854. On the same.My Pato thinks he sings melodious,And like a Swan : alas he's but a Goose.855. On Plutus.Plutus, rich Plutus would have me bestowSome New-years gift, as other neighbours do.Why I will send thee what thou want'st my friendNothing thou want'st, and nothing I will send.856. To Phocion.Thou buy'st up all that thou canst light upon,.This is the way to sell all Phorion.857. To Lividus.Do not raile basely, do not swell with spight,Do not scoffe (Lividus) at what I write :For ridden, trust me, I can hardly pace,Nor bear thee gently like a patient Asse ;But trot amain, and if thou chance to kick,I shall wince too, and gall thee to the quick.