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

I4Epigrams.His silence in such language, I admir'dWhat powerfulfavorite of the Nimphs inspir'dInto their Souls such utterance, but I wrong,To think 'twas learnt from any but thy tongue.21. On a dying Usurer.With greater grief non doth death entertain,Then wretched Chrysalus, he sighs a mayn,Not that he dyes, but 'cause much cost is spentUpon the Sexton and his regimentThe joviall ringers, and the Curate mustHave his fee too, when dust is turn'd to dust,And which is greater then the former sum,Hee'l pay an angell for a Moor-stone-tomb.22. On Sextus.What great revenews Sextus doth possesse,When as his sums of gold are numberlesse,What cannot Sextus have ? I wonder then,Sextus cann't live as well as other men..rfs&c^-^j*iyt.jjffy.'I.-niefcylir v;!t 30"(?Lr'iJCiI-ffOfno?'s? ';.-m J :23. On Cdsus his works.Celsus to please himselfe, a book hath writ :It seems so, for there's few that buyeth itHe is no popular man,itthereby seems ;Sith men condemn, what he praise worthy deems,Yet this his wisdome and his book prefer,Disprais'd by all, they think both singular.