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

436 Fancies and Fantasticks.A Letany.From a proud Woodcock, and a peevish wife,A pointlesse Needle, and a broken Knife,From lying in a Ladies lap,Like a great fool that longs for pap,And from the fruit of the three corner'd tree,Vertue and goodnessestill deliver me.From a conspiracy of wicked knaves,A knot of villains, and a crew of slaves,From laying plots. for to abuse a friend,From working humours to a wicked end,And from the wood where Wolves and Foxes be,Vertue and goodnessestill deliver me.From rusty Bacon, and ill rested Eeles,And from a madding wit that runs on wheels,A vap'ring humour, and a beetle head,A smoky chimney, and a lowsie bed,A blow upon the elbow and the knee,From each of these, goodnesse deliver me.From setting vertue at too low a price,From losing too much coyn at Cards and Dice.From surety-ship, and from an empty purse,Or any thing that may be termed worse ;From all such ill,wherein no good can be,Vertue and goodnessestill deliver me.