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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To those that would be Gypsies too.

FRiends not to refell ye, Or any way quell ye, To buy or to ell ye, I onely must tell ye, Ye aim at a Mystery Worthy a History; There's much to be done, Ere you can be a Sonne, Or brother of the Moone. 'Tis not so soone Acquir'd as deir'd. You must be Ben-bousie, And sleepy and drowsie, And lasie, and lowsie, Before ye can rouse ye, In shape that arowse ye. And then you may stalk The Gypsies walk;

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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.
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