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

5 8 Epigrams.Is itthy vertue, that's deny'd,Vertue is an oppositeto pride.Nay then walke on, I'le say no more,Who made thee proud can make thee poore.The devill onely hath the skill,To draw faire fooles to this fowle ill.152. On Panurgus.Panurgus pryes in high and low affairs,He talks of forraigne, and our civill state :But for his own, he neither counts nor cares ;That he refers to fortune and his fate,His neighbors faults straight in his face he'l find,But in a bag he laps his own behind.153. On Misus.They say the Usurer Misus hath a mill,Which men to powder grindeth cruelly ;But what is that to me ?I feare no ill,For smaller than I am, I cannot bee.154. On a swearing Gallant.What God commands, this wretched creature loathes,He never names his Maker, but by oathes :And weares his tongue, of such a damned fashion,That swearingis his only recreation.In morning, even assoon as he doth rise,He swears his sleep is scarcely out of 's eyes ;