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

,26 Epigrams.54. Vnde venis, memora.With earthen plate, Agathodes, they say,Did use to meal ;so serv'd with Samo's clay,When jewelPd plate, and rugged earth was by,He seemed to mingle wealth and poverty.One ask'd the cause : he answers, I that amSicilians King, from a poor Potter came.Hence learn, thou that art rais'd from mean estate,To sudden riches, to be temperate.55. To young men.Young men fly, when beauty darts;.. '.;*> -.-v .. \ } VAmorous glances at your hearts,The fixt marke gives your shooter aime,And Ladyes lookes have power to maime,Now 'twixt their lips, now in their eyesWrapt in a kisse or smile love lyes,Then fly betimes for onely theyConquer love that run away......56. The pens prosopopeia tothe Scrivener.Thinke who when you cut the quill,Wounded was yet did no ill ;When you mend me, thinke you mustMend yourselfe, else you're unjust.