Qvips vpon qvestions or, A Clownes conceite on occasion offered. bewraying a morrallised metamorphoses of changes vpon interrogatories: shewing a litle wit, with a great deale of will; or in deed, more desirous to please in it, then to profite by it. Clapt vp by a Clowne of the towne in this last restraint, hauing litle else to doe, to make a litle vse of his fickle Muse, and carelesse of carping. By Clunnyco de Curtanio Snuffe [i.e. Robert Armin] |
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Who's dead?
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Who's dead?
A man is dead, that long before ere this,
Dy'd twentie times, yet liude to die this day.
Tis strange it should be so; yet so it is:
But I will tell thee how, and if I may.
Yes pre-thee doe, for why, I long to knowe
How men can die, yet liue and see to goe.
Dy'd twentie times, yet liude to die this day.
Tis strange it should be so; yet so it is:
But I will tell thee how, and if I may.
Yes pre-thee doe, for why, I long to knowe
How men can die, yet liue and see to goe.
He by his trade dies cloth: he is a Dier.
A lest, no otherwise I vnderstand,
And I can witnes thee to be no her,
For he dies all things that doth come to hand.
But he that many times did die in iest,
Now once for all, vouchsafes to die in earnest.
A lest, no otherwise I vnderstand,
And I can witnes thee to be no her,
For he dies all things that doth come to hand.
But he that many times did die in iest,
Now once for all, vouchsafes to die in earnest.
Quip.
To fooles well met, t'resolue each others minde,Of that in which the wisest eye is blinde.
I quip them thus: He that before death dies,
Shall with the blind man see yet want his eies.
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