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

Epigrams. 47114. On Venus and Vulcan.I muse, why Venus hath such fiery holes,I thinke that Vulcan, once there blow'd his coales.115. Sorte tua contentus.Bartus being bid to supper to a Lord,Was marshall'd at the lower end of the boord,Who vext thereat, 'mongst his comrades doth fretAnd sweares that he below the salt was set ;But Bartus, th'art a fool to fret and sweare,The salt stands on the bord wouldst thou sit there ?1 1 6. Fervent perjuria furtum.Piso hath stoln a silver bole in jest,For which suspected only, not confest,Rather then Piso will restore your bole,To quit the body, he will cast the soule.117. Virestit vulnere Venus.Susan's well sped and weares a velvet hood,As who should know, her breeding hath bin good ?'Tis reason she should rise once in her life,That fell so oft before she was a wife.1 1 8. On a rich country Gentleman.Of woods, of plaines, of hils and vales,Of fields, of meades, of parks and pales,Of all I had, this I possesse,J need no more I have no lesse.