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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To Celia weeping.

Fairest, when thine eyes did poure
A chrystall shower;
I was perswaded, that some stone
Had liquid grown;
And thus amazed; sure thought I
When stones are moist, some rain is nigh.

Why weep'st thou? cause thou cannot be
More hard to me?
So Lionesses pitty, so
Doe Tygres too:
So doth that Bird, which when she's fed
On all the man, pines or'e the Head.

Yet I'le make better omens till
Event beguile;
Those pearly drops, in time shall be
A precious Sea;
And thou shalt like thy Corall prove,
Soft under water, hard above.