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

-Epitaphs. 249He was porn in Wales, her was kill'd in France,Her went to Cott by a very mis-shance.La yee now.1 1 8. On Mr. Carter, bttrnt by the great powder-mischancein Finsbury.Here lies an honest Carter (yet no clown)Vnladen of his cares, his end the crowne,Vanisht from hence, even in a cloud of smoke,A blown-up Citizen, and yet not broke.119. On a Lady dying in Child-bed.Born at the first to bring another forth,She leaves the world, to leave the world her worth :Thus Phoenix-like, as she was born to bleede,Dying her selfe, renewes it in her seed.120. On a Faulconer.Death with her talons having seiz'd this prey,After a tedious flight, truss'd him away:We mark'd him, here he fell, whence he shall riseAt call, till then unretriv'd here he lyes.''7.-. ,--'''V. , ',-r-< T T121. On Joan Truman who had an issue in her legge.Here lyes crafty Joan, denyit who can,Who liv'd a false maid, and died a Truman,And this trick she had, to keep up her cunning,Whilst one leg stood still,the other was running.