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 17, 2024.

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A Question.

Between two Suiters sat a Lady faire, Upon her head a Garland she did wear: And of the enamoured two, the first alone, A Garland wore like hers, the second none; From her own head she took the wreath she wore, And on him plac'd it that had none before. And then mark this, their brows were both about Beset with Garlands, and she sate without: Beholding now these Rivalls on each side Of her thus plac'd and deck'd with equall pride: She from the first mans head the wreath he had Took off, and therewith her own brow she clad. And then (not this) she and the second were With Garlands deck'd; and the first man sate bare.

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Now which did she love best? of him to whom She gave the wreath? or him she took it from?
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