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

Epigrams.119. In Odavium.Octavius lying at the point of death,His gelding kindly did to me bequeath:I wanted one, and was in haste to ride,In better time he never could have di'd.120. Loves Lunacy.Before I knew what might belong to war,I was content to suffer many a scar ;Yet none could hurt me, 'till at length a boy,Disgrace to manhood, wrought my sad annoy,This lad though blind, yet did he shoot a dartWhich pierc'd my brest and lighted on my heart,Yet did I feel no hurt till from above,I heard a voyce say souldiers you must love,I lik't it well and in this pleasing vaine :I lostmy wits to get my heart againe.121. Most men mistaken.Vf'*"- '."'". r'"-."'ist* T',",*'" 1Good, bad, rich, poor, the foolish and the sage,Doe all cry out against the present age:Ignorance makes us thinke our young times good,Our elder dayes are better understood :Besides griefes past, we easily forget,Present displeasures make us sad or fret.