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

Fancies and Fantasticks. 3 79A melancholy head itwas,That thoughtit selfe a Venice glasse ;But when I see a drunken sot,Methinks his head a Chamberpot.A Poets Head is made of Match,Burnt Sack is apt to make it catch ;Well may he "grind his household bread,That hath a Windmill in his Head.i uj alijuwa ifous dien oilThere is the tongue of ignorance,That hates the time it cannot dance ;Shew him deare wit in Verse or Prose,In reeks like Brimstone in his nose ;But when his Grandams will is read,O dear (quoth he) and shakes his head.French heads taught ours the graceful shake,They learn'd it in the last Earth-quake.The gentle head makes mouths in state,At the Mechanick beaver pate.The empty head of meer Esquire,Scornes wit ;as born a title higher.In Capite he holds his lands,His wisdome in Fee-simple stands.Which he may call for,and be sped,Out of the Footmans running head.The Saracens, not Gorgons head,Can look old ten in th'hundred dead,-