The Scourge of Folly Consisting of satyricall Epigrams, And others in honour of many noble Persons and worthy friends, together, with a pleasant (though discordant) Descant upon most English Proverbs and others [by John Davies] |
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Epig. 108. Of a Tobacco-taking Horse.
Agelastus that (during all his life)Ne're laught but once; and that was when he saw
An Asse (where Thistles grew exceeding rife)
How simpringly he did a Thistle gnaw.
O! had he seene a Horse Tobacco take,
(As once I saw, and, seeing, laught heart sore)
What mowes and antick mouthes the Iade did make,
He would haue laught, he could haue laught no more
A gamesome wagg did that conclusion try;
Who, with Tobaccos fume, did fill his mouth;
And in his Horses Nostrills, by and by
(From out his Nostrills) in aboundance blowth.
Who snuft it vp, as he the same would smell:
But, finding it (belike) his smell offend,
He puft it out againe, (exceeding well!)
While from his Eies the Teares did downe descend;
And made a mouth as he thereat did mews,
Or els, as he were ready prest to spue,
Who cannot laugh at this, bidd mirth adue.
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