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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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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"Wits recreations. Selected from the finest fancies of moderne muses." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A15606.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 17, 2024.

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432 To Scilla.

If it be true, that promise is a debt, Then Scill will her freedome hardly get; For if she hath vow'd her service to so many, She'll neither pay them all, nor part from any. Yet she to satisfy her debts, desires To yeild her body (as the La rquires.)
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