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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Alvar and Anthea.

Come Anthea let us two Go to Feast, as others do. Tarts and Custards, Cream and Cakes, Are the junkets still at Wakes: Unto which the Tribes resort, Where the businesse is the sport: Morris-dancers thou shalt see, Marian too in Pagentrie: And a Mimick to devise Many grinning properties Players there will be, and those Base in action as in clothes▪ Yet with strutting they will please The incurious Villages. Neer the dying of the day There will be a Cudgel-play, Where a Coxcomb will be broke, Ere a good word can be spoke But the anger ends all here▪ Drencht in Ale, or drown'd in Beere

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Happy Rusticks, best content With the cheapest Merriment: And possesse no other fear, Then to want the Wake next year.
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