OF MONVMENTS.
AT Lisborn in the stewards study of the Orphants hospital is painted in great Letters these words vpon the wall, Ante que des escriue, ante que firmes reciue: that is. Write before you pay, and receiue before you signe.
Wits fittes and fancies Fronted and entermedled with presidentes of honour and wisdome. Also: Loves Ovvl. An idle conceited dialogue betwene loue, and an olde man. Recta securus. A. C.
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- Wits fittes and fancies Fronted and entermedled with presidentes of honour and wisdome. Also: Loves Ovvl. An idle conceited dialogue betwene loue, and an olde man. Recta securus. A. C.
- Author
- Copley, Anthony, 1567-1607?
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- Imprinted at London :: By Richard Iohnes, at the sign of the rose and crowne nexxt aboue S. Andrews Church in Holborne,
- 1595.
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- Wit and humor -- Early works to 1800.
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A Gent. passing by the Shambles, a Butcher ask'd him what those Letters might signifie which were ingrauen ouer their Shambles-doore, viz. K.F.T.S. He answered, K. Know yee. F. For very truth, T. That whosoeuer giues bad waight, S. Shall be whipt at a cartes tayle.
Charles the seuenth French King vewing the tombe of Iohn Earle of Bedford in our Ladies Church at Roane, a zealous Gal∣lant of his traine thinking to doe a high scorne to English val∣lour, and please the King with such his French folly, spurn'd the Monument with his foote, and mumbled out withall tearmes of disgrace against the Ghost of that victorious Earle: Which the King seeing, and disliking, said: Oh (Foole) scorne wee not him dead, whom aliue we dreaded.
A great Ladie in this land walking with a merrie Gent. in a Gallerie, where were a many faire Anticke monuments both in picture and Alablaster: amongst the rest shee spy'd a Mar∣ble Statue of a Syluan-God all in his nakednes, and with verie bountifull perpendiculars hanging downe below his bellie be∣fore: Viewing it a good space, in the end shee ask'd the Gent. what it was like, he answered: It is one of the sixe Clearks: One of the sixe Clearks? (quoth she) how so I pray ye? Hee reply'd: Why? see you not (Madam) his huge Pen and inck-horne?