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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478 Semel it sa••ivimus.
Beldam, God blesse thee, thou want'st nought but wit
And having gotten that, we'r freed from it,
Bridewell, I cannot any way dispraise thee
For thou dost feed the poore and jerke the lazie.
New-gate, of thee I cannot much complaine;
For once a moneth, thou freest men out of paine,
But from the Counters gracious Lord defend us:
To Bedlam, Bridewell, or to New gate send us,
For there in time wit, worke, or law sets free;
But here wit, work, nor law gets liberty.