Recreation for ingenious head-peeces, or, A pleasant grove for their wits to walk in of epigrams 700, epitaphs 200, fancies a number, fantasticks abundance : with their addition, multiplication, and division.

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Title
Recreation for ingenious head-peeces, or, A pleasant grove for their wits to walk in of epigrams 700, epitaphs 200, fancies a number, fantasticks abundance : with their addition, multiplication, and division.
Author
Mennes, John, Sir, 1599-1671.
Publication
London :: Printed by M. Simmons ...,
1654.
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Subject terms
English wit and humor.
Epigrams.
Epitaphs.
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"Recreation for ingenious head-peeces, or, A pleasant grove for their wits to walk in of epigrams 700, epitaphs 200, fancies a number, fantasticks abundance : with their addition, multiplication, and division." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A50616.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 8, 2024.

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137. B. I. approbation of a copy of Verses.

One of the witty sort of Gentlemen, That held society with learned Ben Shew'd him some Verses of a tragick sense; Which did his ear much curious violence; But after Ben had been a kind partaker Of the sad lines, he needs must know the maker; What unjust man he was, that spent his time, And banish'd reason to advance his rime:

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Nay gentle Ben, replyes the Gentleman, I see I must support the Poet than; Although those humble strains are not so fit For to please you, hee's held a pretty wit; Is he held so? (sayes Ben) so may a Goos, Had I the holding, I would let him loos.
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