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

Epitaphs. 2277. On Master Stone.Here worthy of a better chest,A pretious stone inclos'd doth rest,Whom nature had so rarely wroughtThat Pallas itadmir'd, and thoughtNo greater Jewell than to weareStill such a diamond in her eare :But sicknesse did it from her wring,And placedit in Libitina's ring,Who changed natures worke anewAnd death's pale image in it drew.Pitty that paine had not been sav'd,So good a stone to be engrav'd.8. On a Tobacconist.Loe here I lye, roll'd up like th' Indian weede,My pipes I have pack'd up, for breath I neede.Man's breath's a vapour, he himselfe is grasseMy breath, but of a weede, the vapour was.When I shal turne to earth, good friends ! bewareLeast it evap'rate, and infect the ayre.9. On M. Pricke.Vpon the fifth day of NovemberChrist's colledge lost a privie member :Cupid and death did both their arrowes nicke,Cupid shot short, but death did hit the pricke,Women lament, and maidens make great mones,Because the pricke is laid beneath the stones.Q 2