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

3 7 8 Fancies and Fantasticks.Cock-throwing.Cock a-doodle do, 'tis the bravest game,Take a Cock from his Dame,And bind him to a stake,How he strutts, how he throwes,How he swaggers, how he crowes,As if the day newly brake.How his Mistriss Cackles,Thus to find him in shackles ;And ty'd to a Pack-threed Garter ;Oh the Bears and the Bulls,Are but Corpulent GullsTo the valiant Shrove-tide Martyr.Canto.Let no Poet Critick in his Ale,Now tax me for a heedlesse Tale,For ere I have done, my honest Ned,I'll bring my matter to a head.The Brazen Head speaks through the nose,More Logick than the Colledge knowes ;Quick-silver Heads run over all,But Dunces Heads keep Leaden-hall.'A Quiristers Head is made of aire,A Head of wax becomes a Player,So pliant tis to any shape,A King, a Clowne, but still an Ape.