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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58 To Mr. Thomas Heywood.
Thou hast writ much and art admir'd by those,
Who love the easie ambling of thy prose;
But yet thy pleasingst flight, was somewhat hig••
When thou did'st touch the angels Hyerarchie:
Fly that way still it will become thy age,
And better please then groveling on the stage.