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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"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 16, 2024.
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Not with an ill intent, both did desire
Preserves for life, and not a funerall fire;
And yet they needs must dye, & 'twas thought best
To keepe the infant in the mother's chest;
It had both life and death from her, the wombe
In which it was begot, became the tombe;
There was some marble sav'd, because in her
The wombe that bare it, was a sepulcher;
Whose Epitaphs are these,-here lyes a child that shall
Be free from all sins but originall.
Here lyes a pittied mother that did dye
Onely to beare her poore child companie.