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

Epigrams. 2346. In Mincam.Fine Minca lisping yea and no forsooth,Though little eats, yet keeps a dainty tooth :Minca that longs for apples on the tree,In May, before the blossomes fallen be,Or will not eate a Kentish cherry down,But for a couple, when she payes a crown ;And cares not for a straw-berry or peare,> ,^,In truth because th'are common every where jYet what is that which may be had for reason,,;"And never comes to Minca out of season ?T'Jr^Wa47. Clericus dbsque libro.When Crassus in his office was instal'd,For summs of money, which he yet doth ow,A client by the name of Clerk him call'd,//$&.As he next day to Westminster did go,Which Crassus hearing whispers thus in 'sSirrah you now mistake and much do erre,eare,That henceforth must the name of Clerke forbear,And know I am become an officer.Alas (quoth he) I did not so much marke,Good Mr. officer, that are no clerke. ;.^ ftWin..-,-48. To his Mrs.,ft"l.v^iHW'Your lips (faire Lady)if 't be not too much, tf3I beg to kisse, your hand I crave to touch}.",H ^And if your hand deny that courtesie, > ,^^1.(Sweet mistris) at your feet I prostrate ly ;- > \