Thalia's Banquet Furnished with an hundred and odde dishes of newly deuised Epigrammes, Whereunto (beside many worthy friends) are inuited all that loue in offensiue mirth, and the Muses. By H. P. [i.e. Henry Peacham] |
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Thalia's Banquet | ||
Of a Spaniard and a Hollander.
Epigram 93.
An Hollander and a Spaniard one day met,Within their Inne, and downe to dinner set,
Each did begin his country to commend,
And reckon vp the riches it did lend.
What say you (quoth the Spaniard) to our land,
Where (taking vp an Orenge in his hand)
These golden apples thrice a yeare do grow,
As faire as those Hesperides in show,
Or they which nimble Atalanta staid,
Or it which Paris gaue the Cyprian maid?
And in the honor of his Belgick land,
Replies, And what can you to Holland say,
Of these that yeelds vs thousands thrice a day?
Thalia's Banquet | ||