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

56 Epigrams.Or what he doth with such a horse-tail locke ?Or why upon a whore hee spends his stock ?Onely a humor : ifyou question why,His tongueis ne're unfumisht with a lye.If you perceive his wits in wetting shrunke,It commeth of a humor to be drunke :When you behold his lookes, pale, thin, and poor,Th'occasion is, his humor and a whore.147. Tom Baret.Into a barbars shop there cameA carret-colour'd bearded man,And asking for the boy Tom Baret,Said, give me a Turn-up to my Garret*148. Friendship.A reall friend a cannon cannot batter.With nominall friends a squib's a perilous matter.149. On Giles and loane.Who sayes that Giles and Joane at discord be ?Th'observing neighbours, no such mood can see :Indeed poore Giles repents he married her,But that his Joane doth too, & Giles would never,By his good will, be in Joanes company,No more would Joane he should. Giles riseth early,And having got him out of dores is glad :The like is Joane. But turning home is sad,And so is Joane. Oft times when Giles doth findHarsh sighs at home, Giles wishes he were blind :