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.
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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.

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149. Vpon Iohn Crop, who dyed by taking a vomit.

Mans life's a game at Tables, and he may Mend his bad fortune by his wiser play; Death playes against us, each disease and sore Are blots, if hit, the danger is the more To lose the game; but an old stander by Binds up the blots, and cures the malady, And so prolongs the game; Iohn Crop was he Death in a rage did challenge for to see His play, the dice are thrown, when first he drinks, Casts, makes a blot, death hits him with a Sinqu•••• He casts again, but all in vain, for death By th'after game did win the prize, his breath. What though his skill was good, his luck was bad, For never mortall man worse casting had. But did not death play false to win from such As he? no doubt, he bare a man too much.
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