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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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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[illustration] maze
A ✚ begins love's criss cross row.Love's not wthout a cross or two.A duble ✚ begins this knotLove wthout crosses meritts not,This knot & love are both alike.Seeing first & last are both to seekReaching, spreading, round about,All wayes turning in & outStill increasing still renewingCrossing meeting still continuingWinding this way that way bendingWthout beginning without endingTrue love's stirring still in actionAllways tending to perfectionNo cross can stop true loves intentBut it goes on to what it mentAnd though it meet wth many a one,True love makes a ✚ seeme nonTo those yt never love but oneLove of manys true loves baneAnd such shall be cross'd & cross'd againewho lives to love must learne to knowA ✚ begins loves criss cross-row.

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