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

252 Epitaphs.128. On a child of two years old, being born and dying inJuly.Here is laid a July flowerWith surviving teares bedew'd,Not despairing of that houreWhen her spring shall be renewed ;Ere she had her Summer seen,She was gather'd, fresh and green.129. On a Cobler*Death at a Coblers doore oft made a stand,And alwayes found him on the mending hand ;At last came death in very foul weather,And ript the scale, from the upper leather :Death put a trick upon him, and what was't ?The cobler call'd for's awle, death brought his Lastt.1 30. On a young gentlewoman.Nature in this small volume was aboutTo perfect what in woman was left out :Yet carefull least a piece so well begun,Should want preservatives when she had done :Ere she could finish, what she undertooke,Threw dust upon it,and shut up the booke.131. On a Scholler.Forbeare friend t'unclaspe this booke,Only in the forefront looke,