Ex ungue leonem, or, A proof (by ten dozen) of sixty one gross epigrams designed for the year 1656

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Ex ungue leonem, or, A proof (by ten dozen) of sixty one gross epigrams designed for the year 1656
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Printed at London :: By James Cottrel,
1656.
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"Ex ungue leonem, or, A proof (by ten dozen) of sixty one gross epigrams designed for the year 1656." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A38841.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 18, 2024.

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How blinde Adraces was serv'd by his wanton wife.

BLinde Adraces chid with his yong wife Kate, That Candles on the table were not set: For he believ'd it was dark night, altho The Sun to 's setting had an hour to go. You need not care (quoth Kate) for lacking light, You cannot well discern 'twixt dark and bright. That's true (quoth he) yet is it fit I crave That for my house, which all my neighbours have. Well then, Sweet-heart (quoth she) I hold it best You be obey'd. With this, above the wast She tucks up all her cloathes, and, to the view Of those could see, a naked quoniam shew:

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Then said, (Sweet-heart) are you not now content? He, thinking lights were brought as he had meant, Said, (Wife) that is fit for a Princes eye, And worthy to be seen, who ere come by.
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