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

'402 Fancies and Fantasticks.Or like the gray freeze of a crimson cat,.Or like a Moone-calfe in a slipshooe-hat,.'Or like a shadow when the Sun is gon.Or like a thought that ne'r was thought upon:Even such is man, who never was begotten,Untill his children were both dead and rotten.Like to the fiery touchstone of a Cabbage,Or like a Crablouse with his bag and baggage,Or like th'abortive issue of a Fizle,Or the bag-pudding of a Plow-mans whistle,Or like the foursquare circle of a ring,:bm!:-? sHOr like the singing of Hey down a ding ;Even such is man, who breathles, without doubt,Spake to small purpose when his tongue was out.Like to the green fresh fading Rose,Or like to Rime or Verse that runs in prose,Or like the Humbles of a Tinder-box.Or like a man that's sound, yet hath the pox,Or like a Hob-naile coyn'd in single pence,Or like the present preterperfect tense :Even such is man who dy'd, and then did laughTo see such strong lines writ on's Epitaph..roorf s iJKja ol boos s-w ?.dn savrog ?>-!;# AAn Encomium.I sing the praises of a Fart ;That I may do't by rules of Art,I will invoke no Deity ^