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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568. In Cineam.
When Cineas comes amongst his friends in mour∣ning,
He slily notes, who first his cap doth move;
Him he salutes, the rest so grimly scorning,
As if for ever he had lost his love;
I knowing how the humor it did fit
Of the fond Gull to be saluted first,
Catch at my Cap, but move it not a whit,
Which he perceiving, seems with spight to burst.
But Cineas, why expect you more of me▪
Then I of you? I am as good a man,
And better too by many a quality:
For vault, and dance, and fence, and rime I can:
You keep a whore at your own charge, men tell me,
Indeed friend Cineas, therein you excell we.