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

Fancies and Fantasticks. 401;Which caus'd ALneas once again retire,Drown'd ^Etna's hill, and burnt the Sea with fire.Nilus for feare to see the Ocean burn,Went still on forward in a quick return.Then was that broyl of Agamemnon's done,When trembling Ajax to the battell come,He struck stark dead (they now are living still)Five hundred mushrooms with his martial bill.Nor had himselfe escaped, as some men say,If he being dead he had not run away.O monstrous, hideous Troops of Dromidaries,How Bears and Buls from Monks and Goblins varies !Nay would not Charon yield to Cerberus,But catch'd the Dog, and cut his head off thus :Pluto enrag'd, and Juno pleas'd with ire,Sought all about, but could not find the fire :But being found, well pleas'd, and in a spightt;They slept at Acharon, and wakt all night :Where I let passe to tell their mad bravadoes,Their meat was toasted cheese and carbonadoes.Thousands of Monsters more beside there beWhich I fast hoodwink'd at that time did see ;And in a word to shut up this discourse.A Rugd-gowns ribs are good to spur a horse.A niesse of Non-sens^,tiAlo ".' i>