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A Strappado for the Diuell

Epigrams and Satyres alluding to the time, with diuers measures of no lesse Delight. By MISOSUKOS[Greek], to his friend PHILOKRATES[Greek] [by Richard Brathwait]
Brathwait, Richard (1588?-1673)

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LOVES LABYRINTH:
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To all vnhappy Louers.
 
The Author vpon his infant Poeme.
 
Upon the Presse.
 
The Argument of Pyramus and Thysbe.
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Pyramus and Thysbe.
 
Riddle me this.
 
To the equall Reader.
 
To the Captious Reader.

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Upon the Presse.

Tride would I bin by th' Country, Bench, & Prince,
Yet but a month agoe, no longer since,
Was I for speaking (as it may be thought)
And not for silence to the presse thus brought,
Iudge you my friends what conscience there is in't:
By th' weights I beare the errors of the Print.
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