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OF SIMILIES.
A Merrie Gent. seeing among a many faire yoong Ladies one olde withered Beldame, said: Loe, there a Deathes head at the end of a Rosary.
One beholding a house faire caru'd and wrought towarde the top, and rude and rough below, said it was like a womans smocke.
One that had but heer and there a scattred haire on his chin: an other sayd it was like a countrey-parish wasted with the plague.
One being ask'd why hee refus'd to answere one that had highly abus'd him in outragious tearmes: hee answered: I am like a deafe man in a Belfrie, that heares not the jangling of the Belles,
A poore Gent. made an old Seruiture of his, his horse-kee∣per, and hauing but one horse in all the world, it was noted that when he rode abroad, his man staid at home, & when his man rode foorth, then hee staid at home: Whereupon one merrily compar'd them to Castor and Pollux, two starres in the Firma∣ment, wherof the one appearing in the euening, assoone as euer the other begins to shew, straight peepes in his head, and vanisheth out of sight.
A Gentlewoman in a solemne festiuity danced with a yong Gallant a most lofty Lauolta: and a Noble-man there present, sayd, she resembled the crowne of a good felt hat, soone down, soone vp
Of a Gentlewoman that had a bad face and a good waste, an other said, that the circumstance was better then the sinne.
An old Marchant had hanging at his girdle a pouch, a spe∣ctacle-case, a punniard, a pen and inck-horne, and a hand-kert∣cher, with many other trinkets besides: which a merie compa∣nion seing, said: it was like a Haberdashers shop of smal wares. A man & his wife were chiding together, & in came a friend of