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

''''Epigrams.Why do I like a Taper in the night,Consume my self still, to give others light ?If fortunes Minions I should celebrate,All my reward were, to be flouted at.Wit, as a thing above them, they cry down,Rather they'll saginate .a beefe brain'd clown.To laugh at them, or like fond easie Snites,Be flatter'd out of all by Parasites.Cock-pits and revels share their store ;Shuffle away whole Lordships in a daj .:But to a Poet charity's so cold,Cards mayThey'l not afford the rust wip'd from their gold.He that can frame a Morall glasse, wherebyTo dresse them in the trim of honesty ;He that can stick them in the starry sky,And mate their glories with eternity,Must live a recluse to all happinesse,His vertues checkt, and clouded in distresse.Avaunt then Muses nine, avaunt quick from me,Now whilst my blooming years are growing on mePhcebus his barren Laurell I'll refuse,And the fat Olive with Minerva chuse.'' *.9.; ToTasso.Well Tasso shalt thou dine with me,1If thou wilt bring good meat with thee,And lusty wine, and pleasant wit,And iests, and mirth to season it :Well shalt thou dine with me to day,rfftftrffcli-J/Jl D/Lf 2/. 2Jfl IIf thou wilt bring but what I say :