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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The Author louing these homely meates specially, viz: Creame, Pan-cakes, Butterd pippin-Pyes (laugh good people) and Tobacco; Writ to that worthy and vertuous gentlewoman, whome he calls Mistrisse, as followeth.
If there were (O!) an Helespont of CreameBetweene vs (milk-white Mistris) I would swim
To you, to shew to both my loue's extreame,
(Leander like) yea, dyue from Brymm, to Brymm.
But, mett I with a Butter'd Pippin-Pie
Floating vpon't; that, would I make my Boate
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Though Sea-sick I might bee while it did floate.
Yet, if a Storme should rise, (by night or day)
Of Suger-snowes, and Haile of Care-a-wayes;
Then, if I found a Pan-cake in my way,
It (like a Plancke) should bring me to your Kayes:
Which hauing found, if they Tobacco kept,
The smoke should dry me well before I slept.
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