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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- 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 17, 2024.
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To the Coops and the Pens.
And bring in the Hens,
Though the Cock be sullen
For losse of the Pullen:
Take Turkie, or Capon,
And Gammons of Bacon,
Let nought be forsaken;
We'l let you goe loose
Like a Fox to a Goose,
And shew you the stye
Where the little Pigs lye;
Whence if you can take
One or two, and not wake
The Sow in her dreams,
But by the Moon beam••;
So warily hie,
As neither doe cry.
You shall the next day
Have license to play
At the hedge a flirt
For a sheet or a shirt;
If your hand be light,
I'le shew you the slight
Of our Ptolomies knot,
It is, and 'tis not.
To change your complexion
With the noble confection
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Of Wallnuts and Hogs-grease,
Better then Dogs-grease:
And to milk the kine,
Ere the milkmaid fine
Hath opened her ••••ne.
Or if you desire
To spit, or fart fire,
Ile teach you the knacks,
Of eating of flax;
And out of their noses,
Draw ribbands and posies.
And if you incline
To a cup of good wine,
When you sup or dine;
If you chance it to lack,
Be it Claret or Sack;
Ile make this snout,
To deale it about,
Or this to run out,
As it were from a spout.