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

406 Fancies and Fantasttcks.Another he makes deaf your ears to heareThe vain tautologies he doth declare ;That, had you as many ears as Argus eyes ;He'd make them wearyall with tales, and lyes:And at the period of each idle fable,He gives the on-set to out-laugh the Table.One he sits drinking healths to such a friend,Then to his Mistris he a health doth send :This publick Captains health he next doth mean,And then in private to some nasty Quean ;Nothing but healths of love is his pretence,Till he himself hath lost both health and sense.To make the number up amongst the crew,Another being o're-fiH'd, begins to spueWorse then the brutish beast ; (O fy upon it !)It isa qualme forsooth doth cause him vomit.So that his stomack being over-prest,He must disgorge it, e're he can have rest.Here sits one straining of his drunken throatBeyond all reason, yet far short of note :Singing is his delight, then hoops and hallows,Making a Garboyle worse thenVulcans bellows.Now for a Counter-tenor he takes place,Bijt straining that too high, falls to a base.Then screws his mouth an inch beyond his forme,To treble it, just like a Gelders-horae :