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

Epigrams.Whose fame no sooner through the street was spred,But thither straight our chiefest gallants flock.Put case she's poor, brings she not chapmen on ?I hope his stock may serve to graff upon.134- Si hodie tibi, eras mihi.A scornfull Dame, invited over-night,To come and dine next morrow with a Knight,Refus'd his sudden bidding with disdain.To whom this message was return'd again ;Sith with so short time she could not dispence,To pray her come at that day Twelve-moneth hence.135.Better lost than found.Lo here's a Coyner, yet he fears no death,For he ne'r stamps in mettall, but in breath :Swears from Believe me, & Good-faith & troth,Up to God-damn-me and without an oath;Protests in nothing, be he ne'r so bare,He's brave in this, that he can bravely swear.136. Fronti nulla fides.Cantus that Wooll-ward went, was wondred at ;Which be excus'd, as done through pure contrition.But who so simple, Cantus, credits that ?Tis too wel known, thou art of worse condition.And therefore if no linnen thee begirt,The naked truth will prove, thou hast no shirt.