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

Epigrams.29.Sleepe blest creature in thine Urne,My sighes, my teares shall not awake thee,I but stay untill my turneAnd then, Oh then I I'le overtake thee.6 1. JEqiti fatilitas ac difficultasnocet amoris.I love not her, that at the first cries I,I love not her that doth me stilldeny,Be she too hard shee'll cause me to despaire,Be she too easie, shee's as light as faire ;'Tis hard to say whether most hurt procure,She that is hard or easy to allure,If it be so, then lay me by my sideThe hard, soft, willing and unwilling bride.62. Quidam erat.A preaching fryar there was, who thus began,The Scripture saith there was a certaine man :A certain man? but I do read no whereOf any certaine woman mention'd there :A certaine man a phrase in Scripture common,But no place shewes there was a certain woman.And fit it is, that we should ground our faithOn nothing more then what the Scripture saith.63. On the Marriage of one Turboltwith Mrs. Hill.What are Deucalions dayes return'd that weA Turbolt swimming on a Hill do see ?