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

384 Fancies and Fantas ticks,SCORPIO serpent-like, most slily tenders,What much seduceth men, his privy members :Which mov'd our Grandam Eve give ear untoThat secret-member-patron Scorpio.'ft? 3lc r 3f** S&VThe goatish CAPRICORNE that us'd to presse'Mongst naked Mermaidens, now's fain on's knees,Where crest-fain too (poor Snake) he lies as low,As those on whom he did his horns bestow.With arm in arm our GEMINI enwreath,Their individuate parts in life and death :The arms and shoulders sway, O may I haveBut two such friends to have me to my grave.LEO a Port-like Prelate now become,Emperiously retires to th'Sea of Rome :A Sea, and yet no Levant-sea, for thanHe were no Leo, but Leviathan.SILIBRA the reines, which we may justly callA signe which Tradesmen hate the worst of allFor she implies even weights, but do not lookTo find this signe in every Grocers-book.