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 17, 2024.
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An Apologetique Song.
Men, if you love us, play no moreThe fools, or Tyrants, with your friends,To make us still sing o're and o're,Our own false praises, for your ends.We have both wits and fancies too,And if we must, let's sing of you.
Nor doe we doubt, but that we can,If we would search with care and pain,Find some one good, in some one man;So going thorough all your strain,Wee shall at last of parcells makeOne good enough for a Song sake.
And as a cunning Painter take••In any curious piece you see,More pleasure while the thing he makes,
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Then when 'tis made; why, so will we.And having pleas'd our art, wee'll tryTo make a new, and hang that by
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