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

Epigrams. 2 7When you dip my nib in Inke,Thinke on him that gall did drinke,When the Inke sheds from your pen,Thinke who shed his blood for men ;When you write, but thinke on this,And you ne're shall write amisse.57. A raritie.If thou bee'st born to strange sights,Things invisible to see,Ride ten thousand dayes and nights,Till age snow white haires on thee.And thou when thou return'st wilt tell me ;All strange wonders that befell thee,And thou 'It sweare that no whereLives a maiden true and faire.58. On the Queene of Bohemia.You meaner Beauties of the night,Which poorely satisfie our eyes ;More by your number then your light ;The common people of the skies :What are ye when the moon shall rise ?You violets that first appeare,By your purple mantle known ;Like proud virgins of the yeere,As if the Spring were all 'your own ;What are you, when the rose is blown ?A