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

Epigrams.TOO.On the word intollerable.Two gentlemen did to a Tavern come,And call'd the drawer for to shew a room,The drawer did, and what room think ye was't?One of the small ones, where men drink in haste ;One gentleman sat down there, but the otherDislik'd it,would not sit, call'd for another :At which his friend, rising up from the table,Cryes friend let's stay,this room is tollerable :Why that's the cause (quoth hee) I will not stay,Is that the cause, quoth th'other ?why I pray ?To give a reason to you, I am able,Because I hate to be inTollerable.1 01. On womens inconstancy.Goe catch a star that's falling from the skye,Cause an immortall creature for to dye,Stop with thy hand the current of the seas,Poste o're the earth to the Antipodes ;Cause times return, and call back yesterday ;Cloath January with the Month of May,Weigh out an ounce of flame, blow back the windAnd then find faith within a womans mind.102. On Women.Why sure these necessary harmes were fram'd,That men as too too heedlesse might be blam'd,