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

Epitaphs. 253For in it have errours bin,Which made the author call it in :Yet know this, 't shall have more worth,At the second comming forth.132. On a young woman.The body which within this earth is laid,Twice sixe weekes knew a wife, a saint, a maid ;Fair maid, chast wife, pure saint, yet 'tis not strangeShe was a woman, therefore pleasd to change :And now shees dead, some woman doth remaine,For still she hopes once to be chang'd againe.133. On Browne.Here Brawne the quondam begger lyes,Who counted by his tale,Full sixscore winters in his life ;Such vertue is in ale.Ale was his meat, ale was his drinke,Ale did him long reprive,And could he still have drunke his ale,He had beene still alive.134. On a Candle.Here lyes (I wot) a little starThat did belong to Jupiter,Which from him Prometheus stole,And with it a fire-coale.