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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175. Another on Ben: I.
The Muses fairest light, in no dark time;
The wonder of a learned Age; the line
That none can passe; the most proportion'd wit
To Nature: the best Judge of what was fit:
The deepest, plainest, highest, clearest pen:
The voyce most Eccho'd by consenting men:
The soul which answer'd best to all well said
By others: and which most requitall made:
Tun'd to the highest key of ancient Rome,
Returning all her musick with her owne.
In whom with nature, study claim'd a part,
And yet who to himself ow'd all his Art;
Here lyes Ben: Iohnson, every age will look
With sorrow here, with wonder on his Book.