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

74 Epigrams.200. Spangle the spruce Gul :Spruce Spangle's like to a cynamon tree ;His outside is of much more worth then he.201. To Charilus.Eat Toste, and Oyl, eat supple herbs and loos,For thou look'st wondrous costive Chczrilus.202. In Paulum.By lawful mart, and by unlawfull stealth,Paulus from th'Ocean hath deriv'd much wealth :But on the Land, a little gulfe there is,Wherein he drowneth all that wealth of his.203. Vestitusperitus.Clitus goes oft time clad in Suits of Scarlet,That els no colour had to play the Varlet.204, Of 'Poetus.Poetus with fine Sonnets painted forthThis and that foul Ladies beauties worth :He shews small wit therein, and for his pains,By my consent, he never shall reap gains ;Why, what needs Poets paint them, O sweet elvesWhen ladies paint their beauties best themselves.