Sportive vvit the muses merriment, a new spring of lusty drollery, joviall fancies, and a la mode lamponnes, on some heroic persons of these late times, never before exposed to the publick view / collected for the publick good by a club of sparkling wits, viz. C.J., B.J., L.M., W.T., cum multis alsis----

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Title: Sportive vvit the muses merriment, a new spring of lusty drollery, joviall fancies, and a la mode lamponnes, on some heroic persons of these late times, never before exposed to the publick view / collected for the publick good by a club of sparkling wits, viz. C.J., B.J., L.M., W.T., cum multis alsis----
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BLinde Fortune, if thou wantst a guide,
I'll tell thee how thou may'st divide,
And distribute to each their due:
Justice is blinde, as well as you.

To th' Usurer this doom impart:
Ma•• 's Scrivener break, and then his heart:
May's debters into Begg'ry fall,
Or what 's as bad, turn Courtiers all.

To Trades-men that do sell too dear,
A long Vacation all the year:
Revenge us thus on their deceits,
And send 'em wives light as their weights.

But Fortune, how wilt thou recompence
The French-mens daily insolence?
For them I know no greater pain,
Then to be sent to France again.

L••st the Players should grow poor,
Send them Aglaura's more and more;
And to the Puritan more ears
Then Ceres in her Garland wears.

The Physicians if thou please,
Send them another new Disease:
To Scholars give, if thou canst do 't,
A Benefice without a Suit.

To Court Lords grant Monopoly;
But to their wives, Community:
So Fortune thou shalt please them all,
If Lords do rise, and Ladies fall.

To the Lawyers I beseech
As much for silence as for speech:
To Ladies Ushers, strength of back▪
And to my self, a cup of Sack.