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.
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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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"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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A Disswasive from Women.
Come away, doe not pursueA shadow that will follow you.Women lighter then a feather,Got and lost and altogethar:Such a creature may be thought,Void of reason, a thing of nought.
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Come away, let not thine eyesGaze upon their fopperies,Nor thy better Genius dwellUpon a subject known so well:For whose folly at the firstMan and beast became accurst.
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Come away, thou canst not find,One of all that's faire and kind,Brighter be she then the day,Sweeter then a morne in May;Yet her heart and tongue agreesAs we and the Antipodes.
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Come away, or if thou mustStay a while: yet doe not trust,Nor her sighs, nor what she swears.Say she weep, suspect her tears.Though she seem to melt with passion,'Tis old deceipt, but in new fashion.
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Come away, admit there beA naturall necessity;Doe not make thy selfe a slaveFor that which she desires to have.What she will, or doe, or say,Is meant the clean contrary way.
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Come away, or if to partSoon from her, affects thy heart,Follow on thy sports a while,Laugh and kisse, and play a while:Yet as thou lov'st me, trust her not,Left thou becom'st a — I know not wh••••.
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