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

Epitaphs. 269But being dead, the means yet doth not lack,To dye his friends cloth into mourning black.Some sure foresaw his death, for they of lateUs'd to exclaim upon his dying Fate.And weak, and faint, he seem'd oft times t'have been,For to change colours often he was seen ;Yet there no matter was so foul, but heWould set a colour on ithandsomely :Death him no unexpected stroke could give,That learnt to dye, since he began to live.He shall yet prove, what he before had try'd,And shall once more live after he hath dy'd.173. On a disagreeing Couple.Hicjacet ille, qui centies 6 milleDid scold with his wife :Cum illo jacet ilia, qua communis in villaDid quittance his life :His name was Nick, the which was sick,And that very male,Her name was Nan, who loved well a man,So gentlemen, vale.174. On a foot-boy tJiat dyid with overmuch running.Base Tyrant death, thus to assail one tir'd,Who scarce his latest breath being left expir'd ;And being too too cruell thus to staySo swift a course, at length ran quite away.But pretty boy, be sure it was not deathThat left behind thy body out of breath :