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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http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A50616.0001.001
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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 1, 2024.
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Fly thundering Bronsterops to Hippocrene,
And Mauros to Nymph-nursing Mytelene;
Grisly Megaera's ne••romantique spell
Depart to black nights Acherontick cell:
Avaunt transformed Epidaurian,
Unto th'Antipod Isles of Trabroban,
Away Cyllenius plumy-pinnion'd God,
With thy peace making wand, snakecharming rod,
And all the rest not daring look upon
Vranus blood-born brood, and fell Typhon;
Chimera's victor great Bellerophon,
Thou vanquisher of Spanish Geryon.
Stout Asdruball Sicilian Lord of yore,
Thou that destroy'dst the Caledonian bore,
Couragious conqueror of Cretes Minotaure,
Thou pride of Mermeno's cloudy Semitaure.
Perseus whose marble stone transforming shield,
Enforc'd the Whale, Andromeda to yeeld,
You Argonautes that scour'd Syndromades,
And passd the quick-sands of Symplegades,
Help Demogorgon, King of heaven and earth,
Chaos, Lucina, at Litigiums birth,
The world with child looks for delivery
Of Canibals, or Poetophagy.
A devilish brood from Ericthonius,
From Iphidemia, Nox, and Erebus,
Chide Pegasus for op'ning Helicon,
And Poets damn Pyry-Phlegeton;
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Or make this monstrous birth abortive be,
Or else I will shake hands with Poetry.
—Nihil sic nisi Carmina desunt.