Wits recreations. Selected from the finest fancies of moderne muses

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Title: Wits recreations. Selected from the finest fancies of moderne muses
Publication: London :: Printed by R[ichard] H[odgkinson and Thomas Paine] for Humphry Blunden at the Castle in Corn-hill,; 1640.
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Subject terms: English wit and humor -- Early works to 1800.; Epigrams, English -- Early works to 1800.; Epitaphs -- England -- Early works to 1800.; Proverbs, English -- Early works to 1800.
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369 In Thrasonem.
Since Thraso met one stoutly in the field,
He crakes his spirit, & knows not how to yield;
Looks big, swears, strouts with set-side-arms the streets,
Yet gently yields the wal to al he meets.
And to his friends that asks the reason, why?
His an••wer's this, My self I grace thereby:
For every one the common proverb knows,
That alwaies to the wall the weakest go's.