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Festum Uoluptatis, Or the Banquet of Pleasure

Fvrnished with Mvch Variety of Speculations, Wittie, Pleasant, and Delightfull. Containing divers choyce Love-Posies, Songs, Sonnets, Odes, Madrigals, Satyrs, Epigrams, Epitaphs and Elegies. For varietie and pleasure the like never before published. By S. P. [i.e. Samuel Pick]
 
 

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Vpon a scoffing laughter given by a Gentlewoman.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Vpon a scoffing laughter given by a Gentlewoman.

Laugh not too much perhaps you are deceived,
All are not fooles that have but simple faces,

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Mists are abroad things may be misconceived,
Frumpes and disdaines are favours in disgraces:
Now if you do not know what mean these speeches,
Fools have long coats, & Monkies have no breches.
Ti'he againe, why what a grace is this,
Laugh a man out, before he can get in?
Fortune so crosse, and favour so amisse,
Doomesday at hand, before the world begin?
Marrie sir then; but if the weather hold,
Beauty may laugh, and love may be a cold.
Yet leave betimes your laughing too too much,
Or find the Fox, and then begin the chase,
Shut not a rat within the Sugar hutch,
And thinke you have a Squirill in the place:
But when you laugh, let this goe for a jest,
Seeke not a woodcocke in a Swallowes nest.