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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"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

187. On the Tombs in Westminster.

Mortality, behold, and feare, What a change of flesh is here! Think how many Royall bones, Sleep within these heaps of Stones; Here they lye, had Realms, and Lands; Who now want strength to stir their hands.

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Where from their Pulpits seal'd with dust, They preach, in greatnesse is no trust. Here's an acre sown indeed, With the richest, royal'st seed, That the earth did e'r suck in, Since the first man dy'd for sin: Here the bones of birth have cry'd, Though Gods they were, as men they dy'd: Here are Sands, ignoble things, Dropt from the ruin'd sides of Kings, Here's a world of Pomp and State Buried in dust, once dead by fate.
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