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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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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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 16, 2024.

Pages

640. On Formidando.

Stout Formidando walks imperiously, With tragick Bilbo girt upon his thigh; His roping locks, his buffe becomes him well, And to say sooth, he looks right terrible; He swayes the Town before him, and will slay Whatever man he be that dares gain-say: But Formidando pawn'd his coat last night, And Formidando's out of money quite;

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Nor oaths will passe, nor credit from henceforth, For one poor penny, or a penny-worth: Starv'd Creditors begin to gape; and how To quit himself he scarcely knows; that now Stout Formidando who was wont to daunt Whole thousands, trembles at a Pursivant.
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