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

40 Epigrams.But since it is my nature, and I must,I'le crowd and scrape acquaintance for a crust ;I am a genteman of high descent,Come from Apollos glorious element ;Above the bridge I alwayes use to keep,And that's my proper spheare when I do sleep,So that I cannot be in tune or town,For all my scraping, if the bridge be down ;But since without an end, nought can endure,A fiddle-stick hath two ends to be sure.95. On hopes ofpreferment.I saw my fortune goe before,As Palinurus saw the shore,If that I dye, before it hitch,Wei-fare mine eyes for theyare rich.96. On a gentleman that married an heire privately atthe Tower.The angry Father hearing that his childe,Was stoln, married, and his hopes beguild ;('Cause his usurious nature had a thoughtShe might have bin to greater fortunes brought)With rigid looks, bent brows, and words austereAsk'd his forc'd son in law, how he did dare(Without a full consenting from him carried)Thus beare his onely daughter to be married,And by what Cannons he assum'd such power ?He said, the best in England sir, the Tower.