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TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE Syr Robert Sidney KNIGHT, LORD VICOVNT Lisle.

Vinum, & Vinegrum.

I neither hang out Bush nor Signe, t'inuite
The commers by to taste, what VVine I sell:
T'is new, but hard, the pallat to delight:
Yet I haue often heard some others tell,
That I haue VVine, some much more sweete then other:
Beleeue them not, for they may be deceau'd,
T'were better taste thy selfe, then trust an other:
I passe not if thou taste, or taste not, so I leau't:
It's that I made my selfe, t'was neuer bought,
Many pay deare, for that's exceeding nought.

THE Abortiue of an idle Houre.

Ad Lectorem. Epigr. 1.

Apologia pro Libello.

The Epigrams which you shall read

Sunt bona, sunt quædam mediocria, sunt mala plura, Quæ legis hic: aliter non fit Auite liber: Ep. Mar.

Are some good, most part nought,
Indifferent some; or else indeed
A booke, no booke is thought.

In Hermaphroditos Anglicanos. Ep. 2.

The

Virginibus Tyrijs mos est gestare pharetram. Virg.

Tyrian maides in shooting tooke great pride,
And always wore their quiuer by their side;
Our Brittaine brutes, or rather Monster-dames,
Whose necks are compass'd with hells yellowe flames,
I must tell troth, though I be shent for blabbing,
They were Steeletto's, for their prid's in stabbing.

In Drusum. Ep. 3.

VVhen Drusus waits vpon St. George his day,
He prays his friends not to molest him then,
For then hee's not his owne man, doth he say,
He's so imployd, as other Lordings men;
The man's so farre for being then his owne,
That Drusus and his clothes alike are knowne.

In Leuem. Ep. 4.

Leuis through much experience vnderstands
Women haue cause to fancie falling---bands.

In Monoculum. Ep. 5.

VVe deem them craftie, which with one eye look;
But I dare take my oath vpon—ne booke,
Monoculus did nere deceiue his brother,
Hee'd see with two eyes, if he had another.

In Lenonem. Ep. 6.

Leno protests it is not past foure yeares,
Since shoe-tie-roses were in estimation;
And he was one that had the first he swears,
T'is like; for he loues still to be in fashion.
But for his credit and the time, I'le add,
He eight years since a paire of

Non Rosæ mundae,

Roses had.

In Leuem. Ep. 7.

I will not,

Two negatiues make an affirmatiue.

no, and that's as much as I,
This phrase cost Leuis hir Virginitie.

In Littletonicos. Ep. 8.

An auncient tenure Cornage is ye know,
And heretofore hath bin of more esteeme:
Now horns in euery place so common grow,
That men ridiculous this Tenure deeme;

It summons them to dinner

But Inns-of-Court-men should not Cornage scorne,
For they are much behoulding to the Horne.

In Thrasonem. Ep. 9.

Thraso is loath, that his well-wishing friends
Should see his courses, or know what he spends;

Nouerint vniuersi.

But when to borrow neede doth vrge him, then
He stands not on't, Bee't knowne vnto all men.

In Allum. Ep. 19.

All us protests, that he can drinke no wine,
He loues it not, t'will make his headpeece light;
With ale or beere (sayth he) I'le rather dine,
Than hurt my stomacke, or my wits afright.
At wine his lipps shall not so much as smacke,
But you may dayly make him drunke with sacke.

In Quercium. Ep. 11.

Qvercius turns ouer many Physicke bookes,
But doth not practice, yet on water lookes;
I haue not heard his physicke ere sau'd any,
But once I heard, he would haue poysond many.

In Lucifugum. Ep. 12.

Lvcifugus was with a Ghost so haunted,
That he thought euery place to be enchaunted;
He could no soner moue him to one place,
But still his Ghost had got before his face.
Lucifugus ow'd mony to his host
This was his night and day molesting G.

De simulachro Thomæ Bodlëi equitis aurati, Bibliothecæ Oxoniensidicato. Ep. 13.

Here may you see though Bodley but in part,
Apollo's image and Lysippus art.
To wishe for more then part of him were vaine,
For all the earth cannot the

Anima

whole containe.

In Orbicularem figuram mundi. Ep. 14.

The world is round, we know, that liue therein,
T'is round in compasse, and t'is round in sinne.

In Magnasum. Ep. 15.

Magnasus is a man of worthy race,
His nose stands like a Screene before his face;
Much worship did he lose of the last Queene,
Because he could not for his nose be seene.
I heare he hath of late receiu'd some grace,
His Nose it seemes, was in some other place.

In Thrasonem. Ep. 16.

Thraso looks big, and mak's his cheeks seeme ten,
As if he would out-face an host of men:
The flesh, the deuill, and the world, I know
He cannot conquer, though he puffeth so.

In Dronum. Ep. 17.

VVhere euer Dronus sups, or dines, or walks,
He thinks on Dolon, and on Dolon talks;
He's much indebted vnto him, he saies;
And so thinke I, but debt is ta'ne two wayes.
In debt to him sayth he? I know he's bound,
Not for his loue, but t'is for many a pound.

In Hergusum. Ep, 18.

Drunken Hergusus is knowne euery where,
Al spendthrifts know him, such as loue good beere
Cuckolds, Pandars, and periur'd drabs can tell,
Hee's strange to none, not scant to them in hell;
Who knowes him not? if he be strange to one,

Nosce teipsum

T'is to himselfe, himselfe he ne're hath knowne.

In Litorem. Ep.19.

Litoris holds him for a simple swaine,
That get's not forty pounds a yeare by's wits;
But he (me thinks) makes small vse of his braine,
His shifts are bad, nor dainty are his bits;
Yet those, to whom the man is better knowne,
Affirme he vseth all he hath, that's ------.

In Hergusum. Ep. 20.

Hergusus, I had almost quite forgot
To aske thee why of late thou art so hot;
I will not blame thy liuer, nor thy heart,
Thy heate proceeds from some inferiour part.

In Thrasonem. Ep. 21.

Thraso protests his neighbours goods to couet,
Is sinne so vile, no crime may be aboue it;
To wish his wife, he sweares, mauger the Deuill
Can be no sinne; for, shee's his greatest euill.

In Biberium. Ep. 22.

Because I sayd Biberius was discreete,
In that he vs'd few words when we did meete,
One fell a laughing, and this ieast did breake,
Biberius drinks vntill he cannot speake.

De Insignibus Oxoniensium. Ep. 23.

I neuer did behold since I was borne,
An Oxe or Bull whose head had not one horne:
The Citizens of Oxforde had of yore
A Bull that scant had halfe a horne, before
The learned Tribe, which indecorum scorns,
Out of their loue gaue them a paire of HORNS.

In Britannicas Amazones. Ep. 24.

They say a new Plantation is intended,
Neare or about the Amazonian riuer,
But sure that mannish race is now quite ended;
O that great Ioue of all good gifts the giuer,
Wold moue King Iames once more to store that clyme,
With the Mall cut-purses of our bad time.

De Corde & Lingua. Ep. 25.

Non loquitur os secundum cor.

The tongue was once a seruant to the heart,
And what it gaue she freely did impart;
But now Hypocrisie is growne so strong,
She makes the heart a seruant to the tongue.

To his worthy friend Captaine Butler, Gouernour of Bermuda, or the Summer Ilands. Ep. 26.

I marueil I, what mischiefes or what euils
Hath made men call your Iles the Iles of Deuils,
Is't for the perillous

By reason of Rocks, the entrance into those Ilands is very dangeous.

Rockes, or for the

In the beginning of that plantation, great store of hoggs were found there.

Swine,
In whom our Lord the Legion did confine?
What ere it be, let's heare no more complaints,
So gouerne you, they may be Iles of Saints.

In Thrasonem. Ep. 27.

Thinke not amisse of Thraso in your hearts,
Because he brags, and sets forth his good parts,
For I haue knowne some backward to reueale
That which they lost, because they did conceale.

In Leuem. Ep. 28.

Leuis was troubled with a iealous man,
Which long perplex't the silly womans mind,
But taking heart, she studies all she can
For's iealous humor remedy to find:
She so contriu'd, that through a little chinke
He saw that done, which earst he did but thinke.

In Mortem. Ep. 29.

Death, wher's thy sting? I hope th'art taken downe,
I feare thee not in Citie, Court, nor Towne;
Thou need'st not boast thou rob'st men of their breath,
For he that conquer'd Hell did conquer Death.

In Quercium. Ep. 30.

Qvercius queasie stomack feeds on muttons,
Great eaters sin (saith he) and termes them glutons;
To thrust himselfe out of the count of sinners,
One legg of mutton serues him minc't ten dinners.

De Luna. Ep. 31.

VVomen from Luna's custome much doe stray,
She makes hornes monthly, but they e'ry day.

In Lenam. Ep. 32.

Lena was once of gallants much esteem'd,
But now she is as one vnworthy deem'd,
By those of whom she hath bin often vs'd,
She is contemned, scoft at, and abus'd;
The reason's this; All men affect and wish
To haue the youngest flesh and ouldest fish,

In Tergusum. Ep. 33.

Homer did drink, and Homer could not see,
But Homer drunke not out his eyes, like ------

In Littletonicum quendam. Ep. 34.

The morrow next after an Ember Fast,
Litoris brags of his last nights repast;
Partrich and Pheasant, tut, with him's no dish;
I thinke so to, wher's neither flesh nor fish:
He alway keepes his bed, when he sups best,
But Morpheus still is master of the feast.

In Allum. Ep. 35.

I ne're did wish thee well, thou saidst to day,
Now therefore Allus marke what I shall say:
I wish thy nose for euer may looke red,
For, vvhen t'is pale (I feare) thou wilt be dead.

In Ebriosum Ep. 36.

Fle man, sayth she; but I tell mistris Ann,
Her drunken husband is no drunken man;
For, those whose wits are ouercome with drinke,
Are voyd of reason, such are beasts I thinke.

In Petræam. Ep. 37.

Who sayth Petræa hath no abstinence?
Those that say so, haue but a little sense,
For most men know, ti's euident and plaine
That none from Church doth more then she abstaine.

In Thrasonem. Ep. 38.

Thraso I thinke doth neare of anger dreame,
Although his Coller seems to be extreame.

In Lexum. Ep. 39.

When Sword and Buckler was in estimation,
Lexus sayth, then a man might haue some play;
But since this noble fight grew out of fashion,
A boy might kill a man in any fraye:
Lexus in honour of this ould defence,
Hacks many a

One end of a Sur-loin of Beife called the buckler peece, by reason of a large flat bone in that part.

Bucklerin an other sense.

In Lizam. Ep. 40.

Liza doth nothing well, her sister say's
But this proceeds from enuie, I can tell,
For which I must her sister much disprayse;
Since many know that Liza drinketh well.

In Curuum. Ep. 41.

VVhen Curuus first Siluanus daughter saw,
Her heat of youth his frostie bloud did thaw;
Which so inflamd the aged mans desire,
That he ne're stood on portion with her Sire;
Nor was there cause, the match was not so bad,
For with his wife enough (God knowes) he had.

In Ventrosum. Ep. 42.

For trees an pent-houses I doe not care,
As long as you (Ventrosus) present are,
For in the greatest shew'rs and storms I tell ye,
I wish noe better shelter then your bellie.

In Litorem. Ep. 43.

Lye on Litoris, doe, hear's none controules,
Thou maist as freely lye here, as in Poules;
But now my small friend, that the lesse men say,
The more they write against thee euery day.

De Anglis. Ep. 44.

In Magnasum. Ep. 45.

Th'art vaine Magnasus for to be so proud,
Because so many, where thou com'st, giue place,
And most of those are of the vulgar croud,
Yet were they Lords I think, t'were noe great grace:
For one of better vnderstanding knowes,
They giue not place to thee, but to thy Nose.

In Thomansium Long. Ep. 46.

Th'art very fitly nam'd Thomansius Long,
For with thy name doth well accorde thy nature;
Long ere thou wilt doe good, or right a wronge,
Long in thy lyeing, likewise longe in stature,
Th'art long in all, in Nature, stature, Name,
But thou com'st short of vertue, and good fame.

De Musis. Ep. 47.

Ye reuerend Poets, now but earth and clay,
And ye the gloryes of this present age,
Vouchsafe mee leaue with due respect to say,
Ye seemd to flatter in your sacred rage,
Faining the Muses to be women, when
Reason approues them rather to be men;
Those Nine, in men are but a nine-fould skill,
Which for the head is the supreamest part
Doe there inhabit, as vpon a hill,
Well nam'd Parnassus, or the house of Art;
Ther's scant nine women wise; men nine times nine,
Then reason will, they should be masculine.

In Piscatorem quendam. Ep. 48.

Ostendam piscem , quoth a learned Clarcke,
That scornd to vse his mother tongue in schooles;
A right wise scholler forthwith got a Barcke,
And out he goes with all his angling tooles;
His guide pointing to Heau'n, ere they went farre,
Cry'd Ecce piscem, angle for the starre.

De Oto. Ep. 49.

Otus a Mayde both farre and neere hath sought,
But cannot come, where he dares sweare is one;
I tell him Maydes are common to be bought,
If they be common then, sayth he, th'are none.
T'is true and false: But I mistooke the dish,
Otus ment flesh, and I ment Maydes the fish.

In Thrasonem. Ep. 50.

Thraso giu's out, he's riding out of towne,
Yet still I meet him ietting in his gowne;
Which would haue made me thought it but a brag,
Had I not knowne he kept a running Nagg:
But if to speake my conscience I were bidden,
He rides not halfe so oft, as he is ridden.

In Britannicam Amazonem. Ep. 51.

God saue you Captaine. Oh I haue mistooke,
Excuse mee Ladie; when I first did looke
Vpon your broad-brymd hat, and flaunting feather,
Those martiall ensignes met in you together,
Made mee suppose a Captaine you had beene;
Your sex like men I neare before haue seene.

In Lizam. Ep. 52.

Tarlton cut off all his skirts because none should sit vpon them.

Crosse mee not Liza, ne'ther be so perte
For if thou do'st, I'le sit vpon thy skerte.
Thou know'st I know thy nimble fingers ioynts,
Then hold thy tongue, and stand not on thy

Poynted round.

points.

In Leuem. Ep. 53.

Th'Italians say, Giue me your wenches fat,
To make them faire, wee'l quickly finde a meane,
They'l haue them fat and faire; but wot you what,
Thou takst such paines, that thou art carrion leane.

Punctuallists

In Quosdam Punctualisticos. Ep. 54.

Ile tell a secret, if you will not mocke it,
Some keepe a Kalender worne in their pockit,
To note their dayes of buisnes and delights:
Others doe beare about a Rowle of of knights,
So punctuall are they; Yet to their disgrace,
They haue mistaken both their Day, and Place.

Inquendam Tobacciserum. Ep. 55.

VVhen men are dry, they vse to call for drinke,
And so they wet their arrid parts, I thinke,
My husband bibs, and drinke doth euer cry,
Yet his drinke doth not moysten, but doth drye.

De

Nihil aliud est, secundum I hiloso hos, quam albi coloris apparentia, quæ sit ob intētionem astrorum lummis, quæ, vbicirculus apparet, densissima sunt & numerosissima. Est via sublimis, cælo manifesta sereno, Lactea nomen haber candere notabilis ipse: Ouid.

Galaxia siue Lactea via. Ep. 56.

Philosophers and Poets doe agree,
A white or milkye way

Quære de hoc.

in heau'n to be:
T'is well their iudgements there so much doe marke,
For on the earth the wayes of men are darke.

In Drusam. Ep. 57.

Drusa loues powdring, but she hateth salt;
At first this humour seemeth very strange,
Like his who loueth beere, yet hateth mault;
But Drusa's woman-like, constant in chaunge.
Which maks mee hope, that in her daintiest fare.
She may loue salt, and hate her powdred haire.

In Capistra fœminea. Ep. 58.

Tradition sayth the Mair's of Oxforde wore,
A Rope about their necks

Ropes on or about the head was a signe of submission. 1. Kings 20.31

in time of yore
But now for decencie of later yeares,
In the Rop's place each Mai'r a Ribbin wears;
This fashion women vse, which maks mee doubt,
When that came in with them, their Ropes went out.

Ad seipsum. Ep. 59.

Nor pine, nor pranck, in pouerty or wealth;
Nor curious be, nor carelesse of thy health;
To others doe as they should doe to thee;
Loue th'actiue life, yet not too busie bee.
Maturely ponder, eare thou dost propounde,
Prepare thy mind to want, and to abound:
I giue my selfe this Counsell, to indeere
Mee to my selfe, since to my selfe most neere.

In Corbum. Ep. 60.

Corbus will not, perswade him what I can,
The world should take him for a Gentleman;
His reason's this; because men should not deeme,
That he is such, as he doth neuer seeme.

Ad laudem cuiusdam fæminæ virtute præcellentis. ------ Ep. 61.

Men say th'art crooked and exceeding black,
My eye obserues not any thing you lack,
And I esteeme thee as a precious Iewell,
In thee is that giu's my affection fewell;
I loue thee much, what faults so ere men finde,
Because I know thou hast a beuteous minde.

In Lenonem. Ep. 62.

Good lawes there be, and Proclamations made
To force the abstinence from flesh in Lent;
But Leno's appetite is so vnstaide,
Flesh he must haue, though after he repent;
I wonder how he keeps worms from his mawe,
They say his flesh is leane, and fresh, and rawe.

In quendam—Ep. 63.

Honest Sir Iohn doth to his neighbours cry,
Forsake the world, and learne the way to dye;
If this be wholesome counsell he doth giue,
Why then makes he himselfe such shift to liue?

In Assinium. Ep. 64.

Assinius weeps still, for he feares to dye,
As who should say, teares did produce his dayes;
Nay laugh not, till you know his reason why,
Perhaps t'is such, that it will merrit prayse;
Singing (sayth he) portends death to the Swan;
Why may it not presage the like to man?

Allusio ad præcedens. Ep. 65.

This may be true; For wer't for ioy or sorrow,

The Player

Singer sung ouer night, and dy'd next morrow.

In Mopsam. Ep. 66.

VVhen Mopsa mee a Nose-gaye pray's to buye,
I doe not gesse her meaning suddainely;
Her Nose so gay is, that I oft suppose,
She would not sell her flowers, but her Nose.

In Galbum. Ep. 67.

Galbus, when thou wert young, I knew thee fayre,
But you are Sun-burnt since that time, you say;
That burnt you are, you shall not neede to sweare,
For none that knows thee will the same denaye.
But many doubt, though you haue closely hid it,
That t'was not Phebus, but t'was Phebe did it.

In Cornutum. Ep. 68.

That which the eye sees not the heart neuer rues.

Vntill Cornutus gazed in a glasse,
He litle thought that he a Monster was:
But when he saw the truth, he cry'd out then,
Women haue pow'r to metamorphose men.

In Assinium. Ep. 69.

Tell me Assinius, how it comes to passe,
That thou do'st hold in such contempt an Asse;
Knew'st thou as much as I, I'de vndertake,

Similis similem petit.

Thou'dst loue an Asse better for thine owne sake.

De Chinensibus. Ep. 70.

The men of China say (who are so wise)

And all the world, according to their prouerbe.

We see with one eye, they with double eyes;
Suppose they err not: yet a Christian man
Sees more with one eye, then with two they can.

Ad Lectorem intelligentem. Ep. 71.

Readers too common, and too many be,
Hee's tearm'd a Reader, can reade A.B.C.
But I'le not call for such a Readers ayde,

Duplexest hic sensus.

For then poore rymes, you were but ill apayde;

Ars nonhabet inimicum præter ignorantem.

I onely craue protection from his hands,
That carps noe more, then what he vnderstands.

Apologia pro seipso. Ep. 72.

I pra'y faire Ladyes pard'ne my forward youth,
If I haue slaunder'd you in telling truth;
You shall noe more me thus offensiue finde;
But if you mend not, in a worser kind.

In Zabidium. Ep. 73.

I loue thee not Zabidius,

Non amo te Zabidi, nec postum dicere quare; Hoctantum postum dicere, non amo te, Mart.

Nor can I stay so long
To tell thee, why I hate thee thus,
Thy breath doth smell so strong.

In Litorem. Ep. 74.

If I against Litoris ought haue writ,
I shall not need to feare his reading it;
My youth hath seldome so much in his slopp
To buy my Booke, wer't in a Brokers shopp.

Ad Libellum. Ep. 75.

If Philomusus reade you, my rude Rymes,
You may haue hope to outliue present times;
According to the sentence he shall giue,
Or looke you must to die, or looke to liue.

In Lenonem. Ep. 76.

T'is a great signe, that Leno's stomack's hot,
Because hee's noted to loue Lemons so:
But of this reason some approueth not,
Who better do his constitution know:
For they affirme, his Lemons got by theft,
And those are cast-

Priests Lemons.

ones, such as Priests haue left.

De quatuor Terminis militaribus. Ep. 77.

If Souldiers may obtaine foure Termes of warre,
Muskets shalbe the Pleaders, Pikes the Barre;
And since our Termes are rare, get we but one,
Mars shall eate flesh, Iustinian picke the bone.

Or thus. Ep. 77.

If Souldiers may obtayne foure Termes of warre,
Muskets shall be the Pleaders, Pikes the Barre,
For blacke Bagges, Bandeleers, Iackets for Gownes,
Angels our fees, wee'l take no more crackt Crownes.

In quendam Richardum. Ep. 78.

Dick went to Dunmowe for a

The old custome was, that whosoeuer repented not within a yeare after their marriage, they might go to Dunmowe for a flitche of Bacon, and haue it vpon demaund.

Bacon flitch,
And claim'd the custome there: But one replide,
Although I know you (Sir) exceeding rich,
And well may pay; you shall not be denide,
So you will fetch your wife, for then I vow
You shall beare hence two sides of a fat Sow.

In Rodulphum. Ep. 79.

Rodulphus frets, that he is rank't no higher,
Because (sayth he) his Title is Esquier;
Of the first

Not Esquire by honour of bloud.

magnitude hee's not, may be
Some Pippin-Squire, or one of lowe degree.

In Aucipem. Ep. 80.

Ye harmles birds, the Fowler now doth watch ye,
Take heed his charming musicke doth not catch ye;
Happy were ye, and most secure from wronge,
If that a

Fistula dulce canit, volucres dum decipit Auceps.

Fistula were in his tounge.

In quosdam Panedentes. Ep. 81.

Ye Rau'nous Eat-breads, had you chaunc't to liue,
When Christ the Loafes did to the hung'ry giue;
You eat bread so, that some prophanely thought,
That Miracle had then beene neuer wrought.

In Lenonem. Ep. 82.

The Doues will dwell in habitations cleane,

Aspicis vt veniant ad candida tecta Columbæ.

They thriue not, nor delight in any other:
But thou hast got a habit so obsceane;
(Which thou deriu'st neither from Sire nor mother)
Thou dwell'st in Houses (and delight'st therein),
Such as are nastie with the stench of sinne.

In Floram. Ep. 83.

Flora was sicke; they say she's now amended,
But wanteth weight her sicknes so impaird her;
That weight she wanteth shall be condiscended,
She's now so light, that honest men discard her.
If she be well, iudge those that haue more skill,
In my opinion she is verry ill.

Ad Dominam Sapientiam. Ep. 84.

Ever young Lady, euer glorious faire,
T'is strange the sons of men no more doe court thee,
Youth, beautie, honour, wealth, vncertaine are
A month they vexe, if one day they disport thee;
How talpishe-blind are those, who doe not see,
They nothing haue (Dame Wisdome) wanting thee?

In quosdam non Ignotos. Ep. 85.

Th'antipathy of nature in these men,
Deserue an obseruation with my pen:
Two things they loue, greene Leeks and tosted Cheese,
But Hemp they hate, and when they see't, they sneese.

In non Decimantes. Ep. 86.

Some theeues are

Pirats.

water-Ratts, someway-purs-takers,
Some Canters are, and other some House-breakers;
Ther's many sorts of theft, many of the eues,
The greatest

Sacrilegio fi fures.

those, keepe that the Church releeues.

De Naui submersa. Ep. 87.

At north fleete March 1619. goeing out to the East Indies

The Poast brings newes a Ship is suncke hard by,
Laden with goods, worth threescore thousand pounds;
T'were rude in me, to giue the Poast the lye,
Yet graunt me leaue to shew, I haue some grounds,

Christo in nauicula (quamuis dormiente) non perierunt. Mar. 4. 38.

He talks of Goods, if one Good were therein
She had not suncke, but see the weight of sinne!

In Cornutum. Ep. 88.

The time hath been, thou weart a sucking Calfe,
And then thy mother daily vs'd to beare thee;
But when thou wert a weanling, halfe in halfe,
Thy weight encreas'd, and then thy Sire did reare thee;
But now th'art growne an Oxe, I know not one
Can beare thy Horns; thou art so monstrous growne.

Ad Floram. Ep. 89.

The vse of Masks I cannot but commend,
To keepe the beautie from the scorching Sun;
But Flora I would know, what you intend,
Whether you feare the Moone, when day is done;
For I haue heard, that duly euery night
You weare a Maske, to smooth, but not to white.

De suffocatione Matricis. Ep. 90.

Bella is much afflicted with the Mother,
No Physick can her mind's content restore;
A contrary disease troubles her brother,
Of some the Father

Dolor patris

tearmd; which lyes so sore
Vpon his heart, and thence not to be driuen
Till he may say, the Father is in heauen.

In Leuem. Ep. 91.

T'is white and red that most delights the eye,
That cheek's ador'd, where those two colours lye;
But thou look'st green as leeks, or greenest glasse,
Which hue in thee, confirms all flesh is grasse.
Greene cures greene, conceiue me in a word.
For thee nought's better then a Green-goose---

Ad Senatores Lond. Ep. 92.

Graue Senators, add to your Roy'l Exchange,
One

You may call it North streete.

window more, through which your eyes with pleasure
From thence may see your Feildes, and leuell range
Of your young Plants; oh take not so much leasure
For a good worke, which had beene done (some say)
Longe since, had not a

Quære de hoc.

Stile stood in the way.

De quodam iocoso. Ep. 93.

A merry Greeke set vp a Siquis, late,
To signifie a stranger come to towne,
Who could great Noses, and their heate abate;
His lodging, such an Inne, the day set downe,
The hugest Noses thither made repaire,
But Leech found none, they made mine host to stare.

Of the Trees and Walkes in Moore-Fieldes. Ep. 94.

Ye vpright Formalists, and grauelld walks,

Thinke vpon Milletons water.

Of you the Spaniard, Dutch, Italian talks;
So talke they of your Citty's great Infectour,
Old More-Ditch, and condemne the works directour
That More-Ditch is not lesse Ditch, or more water,
To cleanse the filth of those,

The Cut-throates of White-crosse-street and others adjacent.

that catle slaughter.

In Vulpinum. Ep. 95.

Vvlpinus twice was sicke, twice made his will,
(With no intent, that then should be his last)
Gaue all to those, who bore him no good will,
Which well he knew, but policie forecast:
That hope of gaine did gaine those men respect,
Whom all the world would otherwise neglect.

In Potatores. Ep. 96.

Ye gusling drunkards, I do much admire,
Your throats weare not, nor that your arms do tyre
In swallowing drinke, and lifting double Iuggs,
Which fright my senses, as the sight of buggs;
O Guttur-Laine, how many sorts of drinke,
Run poast through thee, as water downe a sincke?

In temporis profusores. Ep. 97.

The world is ful of prodigall expenders,
The borrowers are more then are the lenders;
Those Prodigalls commit the highest cryme,
Who wast their liues in vaine expence of time.

In quendam morbum equinum. Ep. 98.

The'rs one disease in country and in London
Hath men and horses ye, and women vndon;
There cannot sure a more contagious thing come
Then this disease that spreads o're all the Kingdome;
I dare not nam't least Prides pyes in their passions
Chatter against mee. Oh horses! oh the Fashions!

In quosdam Tubicinatores. Ep. 99.

Ye roaring beggers, tell mee what you meane,
To spend each Christmas so much winde, to gleane
Gratuities from men. O come not neere
Where I abode or whisper in my eare;
Be sure your tongues with modestie be tipt,
And then I'le tell you, beggers must be whipt.

In Zoilum. Ep. 100.

My Booke is short sayth Zoilus, What then?
I wish it short, and sweet to other men.

Libellus.

If any aske me now, whose booke I am,
I cannot answere without signes of shame;
For he that owns mee very often saith,
I am the worst of all the bookes he hath,
And which more grieues me, calls me triuiall rymes,
Th'vntimely issue of his idle times.

A MOTTO VPON THE CREEDE.

Nullum simile est idem. Aust:

King Dauids

Psal. 14. 1.

foole in paths of Athists trod,
Denying him whom—I beleeue in God,
Nay more ye Athists know (although it spight ye)
I'le euer trust in—The Father Almightie:

2 Sam. 24. 13

Nor feare I pestilence, nor sword, nor dearth,
Confessing him—Maker of Heau'n and earth.

Rom. 8. 27.

It's thou O Lord, the hearts of men that tr'yst,
Thou know'st my faith in thee—And Iesus Christ,

1 Corin. 16. 13.

Mediat my sinnes (or else I am vndone)
Sweet Christ, with God, thou art—His onely Sonne,

1 Tim. 2. 5.

All men O God, thy mercie must recorde,
Who mad'st vs, slaues to sinne,

1 Tim. 1. 15.

free by—Our Lord;
Which with a

Mat. 1. 16.

bitter welcome was receau'd
Into this World, O Christ—Who was conceiu'd

Mat. 1. 20.

Not by the Carnall act of man, but most
Miraculously—By the Holy Ghost:

Mat. 26. 48.

Nor stayd God here, nor did his mercie vary,
Christ was for vs—Borne of the Virgin Marie:
When he consummated each worke and wonder,
Most innocent, for vs—He suffered vnder
Th'accursed Iewes, through Iudas that false mate,

Mat. 26. 48.

And the constrained doome of—Pontius

Mat. 27. 34. 28.

Pilate:
And more for vs was buffited,

67.

enui'd,
Reuil'd, disdain'd, and last—Was crucify'd:

35.

Mat. 27. 58.

Ioseph of Arimathea then (inured
To works of mercy) beg'd his body—Dead, and buried:
The Lord of life; would all our sinnes had ended,
And beene engrau'd with him, when—He descended
(As we beleeue, and this our Creed doth tell)
Into the graue, or pit, or—Into hell:

Psal. 68. 18.

Captiuitie led captiue, Death in chaine

Eph. 4. 8.

Mat. 27. 63. 28. 6.

And for vs men—The third day rose againe

Heb 9. 14. Rom. 6. 2.

And by his resurrection from the bed
Of soules deceas'd, rays'd mankind—From the dead:
And rotten works of sinne, talk't with th'Eleu'n

Mat. 28. 9. Mar. 16. 14.

Giue them a chardge—Ascended into heau'n:
But not as man, who out of sight forgetteth
Their suits, and wants are absent, still—Hee setteth
Close by our God his heau'nly father, and

Mat. 26. 64.

For sinners interceads—On the right hand
Of maiesty incessintly, and rather
Then Saints and Angells, begs—Of God the father
Forgiu'nesse of all sinnes, t'is he can right ye
O sinnefull sonnes of men, eu'n he th'—Almightie:
Who then would

Eph. 4. 30

greiue him? who so sottish be
To say hee's not in heau'n—From thence shall he
The second time (till when he will not budge)
Descend from heau'n his Throne, and—Come to iudge
With

Mat. 25. 34. 41.

Ite or Venite such as led
Liu's good or ill—Both the quicke and the dead.
And though he's now in heau'n, we must not grieue in,
His corp'rall absence; now doe—I beleeue in
The Com'forter his spirit

Iohn 14. 16.

gainst whom an host

Rom. 8. 2.

Is weake, so pow'rfull is—The holy Ghost:
Satan shall neuer leaue mee in the lurch
Whilst I am branch of—The Catholicke Church:
Let Christians learne to liue in

1. Thess. 5. 13

peace and vnion,
In zeale to imitate—The Communion
Of heau'ns rich Citizens, wher's noe complaints
Nor iarrs of Angells, Cherubs nor—Of Saints:
Ther's loue, and blisse, and

Heb. 12. 14.

peace with so much eu'nesse,
That they ne're one another aske—Forgiuenesse
Then let's not speake, but doe

Mat. 34. 46.

the deeds that wins
The loue of God, and the full pa[illeg.]d'ne—Of sinnes:
So when we dye, or greiue, ther's a refection,
Life after death, ioy by—The resurrection
Nor shall we then, though low doth lie the head,
Be ranck't amonge the number—Of the dead:
This is a comfort sweete, and neuer wasting,
To be assur'd of—The life euerlasting;

Thess. 5. 17.

Pray'rs may doe much, therefore let Preist and lay men,
For this great blessing knit vp all with—Amen.