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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93 On a land-skip in the lid of his Mrs. Virginals.
Behold Don Phoebus in yon shady grove,
On his sweet harp plaies Roundelaies of love,
Mark how the fatyr grim Marsyas playes
On his rude pipe, hi•• merry-harmlesse layes,
Mark how the swaines attentively admire,
Both to the sound of pipe and tang of lyre;
But if you on these Virginals will play,
They both will cast their instruments away,
And deeming it the ••••sique of the Spheares
Admire your musique as the swains do theirs