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

50 Epigrams.And Woe in woemen too, that courted be,As the word Woe, in women we doe see :I thinke 'tis better lead a single life,Then with this double woe to wooe a wife.126. On Promises.My Mistrisse sweares shee'd leave all men for me,Yea though that Jwehimselfe should rivall be :She sweares it,but what women sweare to kind-Loves, may be writ in rapid seas and winde.127. On a barber.Suppose my Barber, when his razors nighMy throat, should then aske wealth and liberty :Ide promise sure, the Barber askes not this,No, 'tisa Thiefe and feare imperious is.128. On Durus.A friend of Durus comming on a dayTo visit him, finding the doores say nay ;Being lock'd fast up, first knocks, and then doth Pause,As Lord have mercy on's had bin the cause ;But missing it,he ask't a neighbour byWhen the rich Durus' doors were lock't, and why ?He said it was a custome growne of lateAt diner time, to lock your great man's gate.Durus' poore friend admir'd, and thought the doorWas not for State lock'd up, but 'gainst the poore,And thence departing empty of good cheere, ^i \\Said, Lord have mercy on us, isnot there.