CANTO IX.
Quere, If Toad-stools be Plants?
Quere, If Flora ben't one of mine Aunts?
Generatio non est ab Idaeis,
Gentes non miscent cum Judaeis.
Homo est Arbor Inversa,
Est Res valdè Controversa.
Ignis datur Inexstinguibilis,
Pontifex-praesumitur Infallibilis.
Phago and Clodios were Platter-Scowrers,
Marriot and Wood were the greatest Devourers.
We us'd a Roguish Trick full bold,
To make Wives hot, and Husbands cold.
Priapism or Frigidity,
Come by Jealousie or Timidity.
From hence sprang Cuckolds new and old,
So many as can ne're be told;
Poor Creatures, meerly bought and sold.