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

' j *'-* *- - ?'1 6 Epigrams.But ifyou on these Virginals will play,They both will cast their instruments away,And deemingit the musique of the Spheares,Admire your musique as the swains do theirs.27. On a Tennis-court haunter.The world's a court, we are the bals, whereinWe bandied are by every stroke of sin,Then onely this can I commend in thee,Thou actest well our frail mortalitie.28. On Balbulus.Thou do'st complaine poets have no rewardAnd now adayes they are in no regard:Verses are nothing worth, yet he that buyesOught that is thine, at a three-farthings price,Will think it too too dear, and justly mayThink verses are in price, since th' other day,Yea who ere buies 'em at a farthings rate.At the same price can never sell 'em at- * ."** *.** -' r. * ,? '". . i .. ".. ( . *','_/"'!*..- i.29. To his Mistris*>1 //"Hyperbole of worth, should wit suggestMy will with Epithites, and I investThat shrine but with deserved paraphrase,Adulatory poetry would praise,-And so but staine your worth :your vertues (orElse none at all) shall be my orator.