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

Ex ungue Leonem.

To the Elixir of Beauty, patern of Goodness, quin∣tessence of Worth, abstrect of all Compleatness, Paragon of her Sex, Master-piece of Nature, Proto-type of Perfection, and the sublimely ac∣ceptable object of Comentment in all the fe∣male kinde; the most excellent, matchless, in∣comparable, transcendent, Angelick, divinely accomplished, and never too-much-to-be-prai∣sed Aura.

YOu are the setled subject of my love; The love of heav'n, & heav'n, in whose orbs move My choice delights: delight of all my chief Aetherial spirits: spirit of my life: Life of my soul: and soul of my desires: Desire of that acquaintance, which admires And worships you: th' acquaintance of the best: The best of women; and a woman grac'd With beauty: beauty, which doth far surpass What is most glorious on this earthly mass:

Mass of supreme perfection; and perfection Of Art and Nature; thus much my Affection Adventures in your praises to disclose, By these gradations that you may compose Your self in ev'ry action, thought, discourse, To be all mine, as I am wholly yours.

The reason why women should go no longer bare∣headed after they be married.

THe husband is the head, as soon's h' unlocks The virgin-door of his espoused mate: In signe whereof, what first was bare she cloaks, And for his low discov'ry veils her pate. Her head she covers, thus to gratifie him: For he's not head, till she be cover'd by him.

The discrepance betwixt Eve, and other women.

EVe finned first most grievously, and then that she was naked it did her displease: Though women now lie naked before men, that they may sin it out with greater ease: Eve in her innocence was naked still; But in their nakedness They work most ill.

Of a certain very jealous man.

JEalous Gravoso, sleeping with his wife, Whose carriage made him weary of his life,

Dream'd that there did, for curing of his evil, Appear a joyful object to 'm, The devil: From whom, he thought, he got a ring so fit For his designe, that so long 's he with it Should his mid finger keep invironed, He would be sure not to be cuckolded. His fancie was so tickled with delight At such a gift, that he awaked streight: But when he found his said mid finger in The orifice of his wifes lower Gin, Without Artemidorus art, he knew The dream to be in either part most true: Both that it was the dev'l gave him that Ring, And that his finger would bar Cuckolding.

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:

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.

How one Dick did cuckold himself.

DIck be'ng come late from a long journey, did Meet with his wife by meer chance in a hid And narrow corner of his country-house, Where he gave her the intercrural douse, Without so much as mum, or any word, Either before, or whilst he was aboord: But when the feat was done, and that his speech, Together with the light of candles, which Were then brought in, discovered the trick Thus done unto her by her husband Dick; I vow, had I known it was you, (she said) Till we had been abed, you should have staid.

Of Moll's skll in Grammar.

MOll in the Common first of two or three Began her Grammar; then the love virotū Mov'd her to study night and day, till she Had by continual practice declin'd horum: She liketh those declensions for the vowel, Wherein the I the Genitive befits, And Atticizing 't in the number dual, The female with the male-kinde she unites:

Or rather, all her Concords are betwixt Two divers geners, where the Masculine Is substantively dative, and so fixt Within the mobil of a feminine, Whose Case is adjectively ablative; That if she, by a jovial Interjection, Further'd with a Conjunction cop'lative, And inward Preposition, such perfection Give to her Syntax, that to him that doth In the first person court her, she apply The second in a kinde will make them both Active, and passive, participially: Then in these her Grammatications, she Each part to other will adapt so finely, That how frequentative soe'er he be: She'll to his Gerunds bear her self supinely. Thus doth she prove superlative, and more Then perfect, in both Nouns, and Verbs, and all The other parts of Speech, required for Cupid's expression, as Grammatical. But though there be no woman that surpasseth Her skill in Grammar, yet at all occasions, Her flexions she so genitively caseth, And subjunctively moods her Conjugations; That all she knows therein, is but a plain Construction of her lust with that of men.

Of Quintin the Bankrupt.

QUin how is drown'd by his sinister fate: What, in salt or fresh waters? no, in debt.

How one Ben, with his Mistress Pen, practised their skill in Alchymie.

THey by aspiring both to the perfection Of the Elixir, did together enter Upon the sev'ral subjects of Projection, B' a mixture natural and elementar': Whilst in material things they co'perated, T' incorporate their Sindon by ignition, She th'unrefined substance sublimated, And crown'd the Magistecum b' imbibition; Till the whole vertue of the stone being tried, They with the touch thereof were satisfied.

Of Nat and his wife.

NOw give me leave (quoth Nat to's wife) to do it. I will (quoth she) my next suit be'ng allowed. Content (says he) with this they fig'd it; then Did she wish him to do it o'er agen.

Of a young Widow, and a pretty Widower.

A Rich fair Widow, as she wept for her Deceased husband; a young Widower Told, that her case was (ah!) then his much better; For (ah!) h'had kill'd his wife with his child getter. Oh kill me then (quoth she) with that same blade; For (oh!) I would be dead, I would be dead.

Of Meads, and Maids.

ALl Lasses love green gowns; and see'ng that the Best grass of any we in Meadows see, Therefore is it, that from the word of Meads Virgins by men are fitly termed Maids.

Of Morgan the Fidler, and his Sweet-heart Kate.

MOrgan made in his progress and retreat, Such musick with his Kyt-stick on dame Kate, That it being like the Pitch-pipe of an Organ, Kate was well pleas'd therewith, & so was Morgan.

To Procaculo, a suiter to one Doll.

THough Doll be chast, despair not; she's a fair one: And though you know her well, yet 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉:

Of a handsome, and well-bred Girl, without a Portion.

I Put the case she be as strait 's a Plain, As white 's the Lily, and as sweet as Honey; Yet shall she hardly in this Land obtain In birth and worth her equal, without money. For to cerdogametick wooers, sucre Is but as wormwood, where there is no lucre.

Of the scolding betwixt Joan and Jug.

GEt hence, you baggage quean, forth at the dore; For I must stay here, strumpet, punk and whore, (Quoth Jug to Joan) Stay then (Jug) see'ng th'ad∣junct Of strumpet, to the stiles of whore & punk You to your self reserve, (quoth witty Joan) And forthwith with the baggage I'll be gone.

Of the right of Cuckolds and Cuckold-makers.

A Cuckold for the most part seems to me To have plus juris ad rem quam in re: But Cuckold-makers (as I think) may claim To have plus juris in re quam ad rem.

Of one Doll, how she practised her cunning in the Science of Natural Philosophy.

DOll's matter being inform'd from the privation Of a Virginity, she was the subject, Whereon the mysteries of generation Were div'd into; and having for her object A body natural as natural, Her knowledge was in th' Acro'maticks such, That 'r nature hating vacu'm most of all, She lov'd de anima but for the touch; And speculating motion, time, and place, Gave proofs sufficient of her skilfulness.

Why it is a proper sort of speech, to say that a man knows his wife, when he hath carnally to do with her; according to the answer of one Am∣phibolos, to another that asked him the que∣stion.

AMphibolos made answer t'one demanding Why knowledge may be tak'n in that acce∣ptation? It craves in man, a piercing understanding; In woman, a capacit' and conception: Knowledge be'ng as it seemeth in our sight, But to conceive, and understand aright.

Of Knox the Sabbatarian.

KNox makes no conscience of Adultery, Of Rapine, Theft, or Petty Larceny; Yet hang'd his Cat for killing of a Mouse Upon the Sabbath-day within his house.

Of Conditional clauses.

THe clause conditional of woman is That promiseth, So far as in her lies: But of that man, that enters into bonds With woman is, So far as in him stands. For his erection, with her succubation, Keeps uninfring'd their mutual obligation.

The words of one Mongo, to a Courtizan of his acquaintance; together with her reply.

Dem.

THere being a great that's long, and great that's thick; Which of the two love you best in a—?

Answ.

The thick one I prefer: for I desire A Tompkin rather then a priming Wire. Yet if my wish were to be granted, Mong, I would chuse one, that were both thick & long.

Of Scotus and Aquinas.

THese stirring spirits of Aquin and Scot May be compared to the sun in March, Which raiseth humours, but dissolves them not; For they for nine a clock at mid-day search, And make to Questions subtil answers, which Provoke far rather, then abate the Itch.

In vindication of a free-strained Epigram.

ME-thinks I hear the Reader mutter, (faugh!) This is obscene and bawdy, and that a Good Epigram cannot be scurrilous, Though it should be quick and sententious: Yet let him know, see'ng I have fram'd as many Of such a kinde, as ever yet did any,

That it could not be sutable to my Intended method of Variety, Not to be sometimes frolick in my lines; For to such strictness who his vein confines, And gravely tunes his notes at ev'ry minute, Sings rather like a Cuckow then a Linet: Who likewise cannot mix with Lydian Lays Cromatick airs, doth merit no more praise Then who, a Ladies picture having made, Did quite forget to have it shadowed.

Therefore unto my self I did propose Of Epigrams a body to compose, Which should not totally consist of eyes, Nor ears alone, of heart, brains, tongue, or thighs: For that were monstrous; but of these, and all Parts fit for Microcosms Poetical; And so have symmetry, and members common With the most perfect and accomplish'd woman, Whose beauty will not please (in my account) The sweetest lover, if she want a C—. Nor is there any in the Universe, Will hold that she's compleat without an A—

Of the amorous Kisses which frequently pass be∣twixt the male and female.

SHe by receiving kisses from the male, Brings his recommendations to the tail: This is the cause, I think, why the word lips Hath such a full-mouth'd Rhyme with that of h—.

An Apologie for lascivious Writing.

WHy should we bashful be to write in sheets, What Law both sexes t'act in sheets permits? Unless it were a greater sin t'intrust Paper with words, then beds with deeds of lust. Nay, where to do a thing deserves no blame, To speak thereof we ought not to think shame.

Of No, and Much.

THere is scarce any other word that's Spanish And English both, but onely much, and no: For once much hatred and no love did banish The one from th' other, as their mortal so: Yet would much trust, and no deceit make these Two nations fully one another please.

The words of one, that was both a great Drinker, and a Wencher, in excuse of both.

IT is not for the love of drink, that I Carouse so much; but for the company: No more then it is for the Nuptial cranny, That I grimbetilolletize my Jany; It be'ng her belly, thighs, eyes, arms, mouth, face, And other such appurtenances, as Accompany the integrants, that do it, Which so bewitchingly entice me to it.

Of Bettrice the widow of one Frederick

BEt' two hours after Fred' her husband's death, Be'ng su'd in terms of marriage by one Beth, Said, Sir, I cannot yeeld to your demand; For I 'm already promis'd beforehand.

Contraria juxta se posita, clarius clucescunt.

AS Cloris keeps a cole-black Morish girl, That her own beauty may seem like a pearl: So Bast to 's house doth onely fools admit, That he may seem to have the greater wit.

Bridegrooms compared to Mathematical Navigaters.

BRidegrooms, like skilful Navigators, hit The land, whereof they never saw one bit.

Of Here-bider the Dutch-man's adventure, with the beautiful Courtizan Flora.

FLora is call'd an Angel, yet Here-bider Found her not so, when he with 's touchstones try'd her: For if we take an Angel as it is A current Coyn, esteem'd worth half a Piece, She is not worth a Groat; she 's course allay, And many grains too light, base ev'ry way.

I but (says one) in beauty she's so bright, That she is like those Angels call'd of light: Yet truly she 's not so; for, in th'effects Of darkness, she most pleasure always takes: Therefore if we must needs her Angelize, She's like those Angels fell from Paractise; A ver' incarnate dev'l, fiend of perdition: For, whom she rempted hath to her fruition, And drawn within her sulph'rous firy pit, Those she hath pepper'd for their entring it: Within the hell of whose concavitie (Pandora's box-like) all diseases lie. None knows her to b' an Angel by her wings; But by the prickning and mischievous stings, Which she still keepeth lurking in her tail, For the destruction of each silly male That comes within her reach, her to embrace. Thus Flor' 's a dev'l, in a fair angel's dress.

Of one Trigion, who was in love with a holy sister named Peine.

WHen Trigion found that he did but in vain, For divers months, make love to Mistris Pein, Hearing she was a Congregationer, He to her godly meetings did repair, That, under colour of profound devotion, He might the better prosecute the motion Of getting his desires; which, in effect, Did come to pass, as he did it project:

For when the lights were out, he in the dark Did many nights together on that mark He aimed at, give her the touch of three, Though all this while she knew not it was he, This did embolden him one day to try If (as before) she would his suit deny; And, the more strongly to perswade her to it, Told her where, when, and how oft he did do it. You are deceiv'd, (quoth she) I will not (Trigion) Do that for lust, which I did for Religion.

Concerning such, as of late have received the honour, some of Lord, some of Earl, by the names of eminent running waters.

I Know no reason why, in Scotland, divers Have built their dignities upon the brittle Unstay'd foundation of impetuous rivers, None fearing, that therein he sink his title; Unless it be, they aim by such a wile, T' have without eloquence a fluent stile.

The relation of a single Combat, as it was fought betwixt Dan, and his Sweet-heart Anne.

H' along'd about, that she might have the proof Of's imbrocat; and gliding swift from thence, H' advanc'd again, and met her contrebuff From a lowe ward: to 's strokes she makes defence,

And paries with her shield: now he re-skips, And gives in thrusts: but lest he should escape her, She backrisposts them: h' enters in her grips: She countergrip'd, and past belowe his rapier: Then strugling in the close, though he was stronger, His weapon failing, he could fight no longer.

Upon one Frank.

WHen she in name alone was Frank, She was a maid, and her womb lank: But when she was in nature Frank, Her belly swell'd up like a bank.

Of Vir, in Virginity.

Dem.

WHy hath the word Virginity, Vir in 't; See'ng maids (as such) ply not t'a viril dint?

Answ.

Because the Moon within her hath a man, And yet 's a virgin, call'd the chaste Diane.

Of the pretty woman Nell, most exquisitely pra∣ctising the gesticulatory cricks and whirls of an amoreus ball.

NEll's feet express in dancing the Love-rites (Her tongue be'ng silent) which her heart en∣dites:

And, with a smiling face, a twinkling eye, A nimble body, and lascivious thigh, Affords notorious evidence, by this Her frolick carr'age, what her meaning is. She paceth it so softly, that she seems Close by the floor to flie with her stretch'd limbs; Or rather, she along the Carpet sails, To seize upon the hearts of all the males That purposely went thither to behold her: The more they 're like to yeeld, she is the bolder T' encounter them, where they cannot resist; And therefore in those slights doth she insist, Wherby they're caught the ground she slightly touches, And most bewitchingly makes her approches. Now she retireth, till her dainty foot Make all that stands upon it wheel about: And other while, she putteth on, to shew The gallant progress of the passage: now She turns, and veers with pleasant gambols; then Recoyls, sets forward, and comes in again; And to the cadence of the Lutes and Viols, Displayeth such incomparable trials Of her agility, that ne'er was yet A woman that more bravely footed it. She to the lookers on makes her addresses, As if they were to fall in her embraces; And the most intim'secrets in the feats Of marriage-consummation, counterfeits. She trips her motion with the greater license, That she is sure it heats the concupiscence

Of the spectators: ev'ry Iustful jert She lanceth, is a double-forked dart, To pierce them to the very soul: each cast Of her alluring eyes, hath them possest With so great fervencie, that as she glanceth, And in delights triumphingly thus pranceth, Her sparkling blinks do to their fancie prove A Philtre, which impoysons them with Love. A while she stops, reflecting on the joys She's taken with, in these inchanting toys: Then in a trice falls to again, renews Her itching wriglings, revels her reviews, Fetcheth her whirls and frisks, and is so quick In the performance of each am'rous trick, That all who see how finely she doth stir, Are o'er the ears enamoured of her.

Yet her activity in membral gesture, Adorned by her gorgeousness of vesture, And all those Mimick pranks, which she deviseth, These amourets, wherein she exerciseth Her toe, her heel, her eye, her total frame, Are but the ushers of a better game: All the pathetick fantoms, ardent charms, She makes shew of t' infold within her arms, Those antick postures, frigging minardises, Those tickling quav'rings wherewith she entices The Damerets of th' Aphrodisian Court, Are shadows of a more substantial sport, Or moving pictures of that solid pleasure, Which Nuptial Hymen, in a larger measure,

Allows a matrimoniated couple, To reap by mutual dalliance without scruple.

But now that she is wearied with the toyl Of balling, and that all her spirits boyl With scorching flames of the blind archers fire, Which kindleth no less vehement desire In her Inamorato's, hence she goes, Having farewell'd the company, at whose Earnest intreaty she was pleas'd to come Into a fair and well-adjusted room; Where though she in appearance seem inclosed, Onely to have her tyred bones reposed; One of her Suitors, who, at all adventures, Follows upon the track, gets leave to enter: But what they do, the door being shut, and she Most glad there's now none more with her, but he; Let those be judges, who, in the like passion, Have had the leasure of such recreation.

Of Bess.

BEss is a whore, because she 's bent ad stupra; And a Pick-pooket is, causa qua supra.

Of Pet, and his wife Kate.

SO prodigal is Pet, that sooner he Will a good wife, then a good husband be: And Kate is such, that, I dare pawn my life, She'll sooner b'a good husband, then good wife.

Concerning the Bride Meg, to her Bridegroom.

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Of the wench Frank, concerning her skill in Algebra.

THough by her Algebra Frank found Aequations, And ways to work in rules of dark positions Yet, to all Algorsts interrogations, She made the root the onely supposition: By which art, she her pleasures did refine, And like to Cossick numbers so bestow them, That they went ne'er alone, without some signe Of rooted quantity annex'd unto them: But still most secrets she disclos'd, when she Try'd new conclusions by the Rule of three.

Of Lasses, and Glasses.

THough Glasses and Lasses be never so little, Yet Lasses and Glasses are ever in danger: For Lasses and Glasses are both of them brittle, And ready to fall in the hands of a stranger. Though falling be common to Lasses and Glasses, Yet is there this differ 'twixt Glasses and Lasses, That falling breaks Glasses to pieces asunder, But pieces bring Lasses to falling at under.

The Arithmetick of Bess the Courtizan.

BEss fitteth her acc—unt by ternaries, Whereof the prick denominates the value: Yet holdeth that her cyfer fruitless is, Without the right position of his fellow; A goodly digit, which, in its due place, May therewith frame an article of peace.

The liberality of one Mr. Rashion.

TAf from his Master brought a Buck to Rashion, Who said, in thinking his pains worth a fee, Take here a Groat for your remuneration. Sir, keep your Groat; the word contenteth me: Which possibly, had it been shorter, you Had been well pleas'd more wages to bestow.

Of one Jane accustomed to Farding, whose pi∣cture the Limner drew, to represent her face, as it was painted.

JAne's Picture her resembleth not, though she Be as like it as any thing can be. What 's natural in her, it doth not hit So well as she hath art conform to it. She seems in be'ng so artificial, To be th' extract, and it th' original:

Her lively hue it doth not so express, As she shews it in colours on her face. The Limner thought he pourtray'd her the better, The more his art did counterfeit her nature: But she endeavour'd, on the other part, To force her nature t'imitate his art. Her shining tincture she most sprightfully Illuminated with a glist'ring dye; And made the lustre of her countenance, In th' eyes of the beholders, so to glance, That one would think in what they represented, That he did onely fard, but that she painted. Yet in the table, which his pencil drew, Her seniblance was s' apparent to our view, That I may boldly say, If that there were So much of life in it, as art in her, It would both speak, and walk, and be in love, And her own other self in all things prove. But to determine further of their worth, They do each others likeness so set forth, That, in a word, they 're both but images, It, of what she was; she, of what it is.

An Observation upon Caesar, and his Gaulish foes.

SOme names of Caesar's foes did end in x, Such as Ciugetorix, Ambiorix. With Dumnorix, and old Veridovix, Orgeterix, and Eporedorix,

With Vircingetorix, and Segonax, Which shew, that with great prowess, and State-knacks; With warlike feats, & Court-like daubing tricks, He was to make himself Anax, and Rex.

The words of a certain Bridegroom, whilst he was about to consummate the Matrimonial act with his Bride; together with her answer.

Sp.

SO much the more belov'd of me are you, That to my suit you did not yeeld till now.

Enc.

I was so often cheated in 't before, That I resolved to do so no more.

The analogie betwixt Apples, Codlins; Maids, and Women.

AS a green Apple from a Codlin, so Do Maids and Women differ: both of them Must needs endure a little boyling, to Immerge the former in the others name. The open pores of th' apples skin, admit To th' inward substance Vulcan's hot impression, And Cupid's fire enflameth maids, till it Interiourly enact their transformation. Maids be'ng made women, that the touch may feast; And Apples, Codlins, to delight the tast.

At a peny the sheet.

THe fees of Nick the Pimp, and the Clerk Ned, Are much alike: for Nick but two pence had Last morning for the Courtizans bed-making, Which for each sheet was but a peny taking.

To Philoinos.

IN all the Rhetorick of Aristotle, The Prosopopeie of a Tavern-bottle Is of all Figures, that which best likes you, When it flows eloquently Glou, glou, glou.

The words of a certain jovial woman to her jea∣lous husband, in apologizing for Lechery, by the metapher of a Ring.

THis Ring of mine (Sweet-heart) hath been upon My finger (as you know) and on your own; And yet in ev'ry thing without amiss, Whate'er it was before, the same it is; In measure nor in goodness doth it change: Ev'n so, albeit my other Ring should range, Upon inclosing more then one or two Of such-like fingers as you use it to, You would not finde it worse in any thing, That's competent to such a kinde of Ring.

That in the whole composure of humane frame, amidst the variety of its most alluring parts, the mouth affords the greatest conveniencie for the application of a kiss.

IF Kisses did not to the taste belong, The male and female love inspired youth Would do the remnant of the body wrong, In Kissing nowhere else but on the mouth. Yet of all other, the chief reason is, That th' onely mouth can interchange a kiss.

To Jupiter.

WHen Io was a cow for thee, (Great Jove) Why didst thou for the Nymph Europa's love Become a Bull, and not for her whose shape Had to receive thy coit been more apt? Was it because Pasiphae, the Queen Of thine own Isle of Creet, was to be in The yoke of love with the bull Minotore, Without regard of mankinde; and therefore Thou wouldst have neither sex to Cupid be Exempted from irregularity? Had Io these two Ladies Cucknelized, And the turn-bulls eachother rivalized, They truely had done what they ought all three: Mean while Europa, and Pasiphae,

Their womanhood had without any scruple Gast off, t'enjoy that bullified couple; And rather then their inward touch to lose, Put on vaccality, and turn Io's: For men and women both their Reason quit, When they in Venus and her son delight.

Of Love's Didimi, and the premises of a Syllogism.

AS the premisses are two Propositions, Whose charge is with an argumenting vigor T' infer a third, as strong by their positions, Within the limits of some certain figure: So do the twins of Cupid hold compactly A substance well elaboured by nature. That through the third, they may the more exactly Infuse the most refin'd of all the matter; Yet in the sequeles we such differ finde, That this, springs from the body; that, the minde.

Of the nature of such licentious women, as do datly addict themselves to the practice of Venery.

TO that part which is most profoundly ractil In Courtizans, we fitly may compare The last ca'sur' of a Pentameter; Because it still before it hath a dactyl: And therefore Poets did or old rehearse Their baudy songs, in th' Elegiack verse.

Of two Wonchers, whereof the one was a Papist, the other a Protestant.

The Papist.

I Gladly would a Lass hinkinkiate, That is a Protestant, to vindicate The honour of the Pope, who still hath been By that profession call'd The man of sin.

The Protestant.

I would t' a Popish girl an inward foyl Give willingly, and soundly 'r dinsredonii, Meerly to be revenged of that fry, Which termeth our Religion Heresie.

The simplicity of the Girl Joan, in losing her Virginity with one Beedle.

JOan, being call'd to the wedding of her brother, Was punctually commanded by her mother, That in the company of young men, she Should have a care to keep hea modesty. The girl was very frolick, loved sport; But was so simply young, that in what sort She should obey her mothers precepts, she Could in no maner descant: for of the Word honesty she did not know the sense, This being perceiv'd by Beedle, he from thence, As soon's her mothers back was turn'd about, After some ceremony led her out.

Unto a private room, where he her told That he had learn'd a secret, which he would Impart to her, whereby she might be very Sure of her honesty, and yet be merry: For (says he) mark, there is a little rent Betwixt your thighs, which will afford a vent For your poor honesty to flie out at, Unless it neatly be sow'd up; and that I shall perform: for here I have a needle Will do the work. For God's sake, Master Beedle, Do that, (quoth she:) with this, she touching it, Together with the roundlets to it knit, Fell back immediately, to th' end he might Enter in her mid seam his point aright: Which he did do with great dexterity, And prick'd her to the life most lustily. This when he once had done, he ask'd how she Was pleas'd with his new-fashion'd taylorie? Exceeding well, (quoth she.) Well then, (says he) To th' end that you may all this day-long be Assured still your honesty to keep, I will bestow upon you yet to deep And strong-drawn stitch: which was no sooner said, But he of new insuturates the maid. When he had thus twice rantred pretty Joan, He took his cloak up, and would have been gone: Stay, my dear Beedle, yet (quoth she) and give Me one stitch more for my rent, as I live, So large is, that my honesty (I think) Without more help, will flie out at the chink.

Sweet Joan, (quoth he) I can do no more now: For the whole thred I had, is spent, I vow. What have you done (quoth she) with the two clues You had just now? Have you put all in use? If so be, I admire how there was need Of so great bottoms for so little threed?

Why so many maidenheads are lost.

THe chiefest reason why most virgins are So oft surprised, is because the Centry So neer the court de garde is in this war Of Cupid, that the enemy gets entry Within the citadelle, and brings 't in awe, Before the centry can say Qui va la?

Of Ben, and Goodie Glamees.

THe reason why Ben jummed Goody Glamees, Was optimum est condimentum fames.

How Geometrically the Mathematician Ned did court his sweet-heart Meg.

WHen Ned look'd on the lineaments divine Of Meg's fair face, he woo'd her in a line: From whence ascending to her lips more gay, He courted her in superficie: And thence proceeding fowards (without ho) Her body he enjoy'd in solido.

The mutual taunts of an English and Spanish Ambassadour.

TH' Ambassadours of England, once, and Spain, (Great Linguists both) to Paris when they'd come To treat of State, did purposely abstain From talking each in th' others Idiome. The proud Castilian (whilst they both did stand On their Puntilio's) said in his Romance, Let us speak French, see'ng we are in the Land Of your great Soveraign, the King of France. No, (says the Br tish Lord, in th' English tongue) We in the Hebrew our discourse will frame, Lest otherwise your Master I should wrong, Who is th' anointed of Jerusalem. Which Jeer being to the purpose thus retorted, They each with th'others wit the rafter sported.

Concerning those who being lov'd, are said to possess the hearts of such as are enamoured of them.

LOvers so spend now on their Mistresses Their cordial spirits, pierc'd with Cupia's darts, That, like to Paphlagonian Partridges, Each fair and vert'ous Lady hath two hearts: For one cannot possess so great perfection, And be the object of no man's affection.

Why on the Friday we ought to abstain from flesh — to Ned.

Dem.

WHy should we eat no flesh on Friday, Ned?

Answ.

'Tis Venus day, who was mongst fishes bred; And that on which the man and wife, being set In Paradise, would taste no kinde of meat, But fruit and herbs: a food therefore most fit For us that day, and fishes next to it.

The severally inflicted wounds of Cupid's dart; Love being somtimes reciprocal, somtimes not.

BEss loveth James, whose humour is so Gotick, That for no earthly thing would he possess her; And hateth Will, whose fancy's so erotick, That he must die, if he do not embrace her. Alce, James despiseth, though he her respect Beyond all other pleasures, wealth, and honour; And passionately doth her Will affect, Who scorns to do so much, as look upon her. Like shades, which flie from fol'wing bodies, hatred Being loves reward, & love hates compensation: These four disdainful lovers were thus fettred With circled chains of quite contrary passion. But Mark and Moll die each for love of other, And both in others arms revive together.

Of Virginity.

VIr, in the Latine, yeelds of man th' expression; Gini, in Greek, a woman doth imply; Tie, in our Tongue importeth copulation: Which three words spell us out Virginity. Hence, that no maidenheads are lost, we gather, If male and female be not joyn'd together.

Of that masculine love, which tends to lust.

MAn's love is drawn from the circumference Inscribing th' outward Pentagon of sense, Unto that female inward tactil center, Like a diameter, which there doth enter.

To a certain Gentlewoman, concerning Cupid, and a new born babe of hers.

BEcause one lovely boy your eyes did enter, Another issu'd at a lower center: The first got access at the sight, and such, As made the last finde egress from the touch. The babe was blinde, which stepped in, and took His passage at the sense whereby you look: But there did sally at the part, whereat No optick vertue is, a seeing brat. So interlaced are the faculties Of View and Feeling, in the exercise,

Which sets abroach an infants generation, Or labour, which gives children procreation; That, by their mixture, you had a full measure, First, of the cause, then, the effect of pleasure.

The Bell-man.

BRave youths, who with your handsom sweet-hearts lie, Charm'd with a tactil sensuality, Let each, and all of you observe your mate, Both when she lougeth, and when she's repleat: For be assur'd, that in the greater measure You 'il please your selves, the more you mind their pleasure. 'Tis a fair morning, & but one a clock, Give therefore breath unto your hic in hoc: For there is nothing stands, but once must fall; And so good morrow t' ye, my masters all.

Of the widow Machlis.

MAchlis, in her return from th' obsequies Of her deceased mate, finding the ways To be quite broken in the cawsey, which She trod on, utter'd this ambiguous speech, (Ev'n whilst her hand was dangling carelesly On her feminian overture) if I But have the luck to live another year, Many a pretty store shall be laid here: And that in honour of my husband, who Past sev'ral times upon it to and fro.

That it is a very natural thing in a woman, to lose her maidenhead.

SEeing Nature, to shun voids in th' Universe, Doth mounting floods, & falling air embos'm; Why shall a woman from that course b' averse, To fill the vac'um of her Microcosm? Vacuity with it confusion carries; And women should eschew 't, lest mankind pe∣rish.

To a lusty strong man named Bently, on the day of his marriage with a young weak strip∣ling Girl.

I Would not wish you wholly to forbear, Because the Bride is young, from colling her: Yet this I would desire you, Master Bently, If so the ground be tender, rake it gently.

Of the Lover Eron, and his Sweet-heart Phileta.

ERron, when first the blind brat did him move To Venery, abandoning all arts For the enjoyment of Phileta's love, Became a Sentry at her lower parts; Waiting as constantly upon her nates, As ever on Aeneas did Achates.

The reason why wearing of Gowns is peculiar to Scholars and Women.

TO call him Scholar, that knows much, is common: A maid, by knowing man, is made a woman: He in the head with knowledge is endowed; She in the tail her knowledge hath imbued. This is the cause why both wear Gowns, and why From head to tail they reach talariately.

Of one Strigo, a Farmer in Aragon, who for his matchless activity in Love-duels, was sent for by Alfonse the then king of that country.

THe Yeoman Strigo was in reins so strong, That he could foil ten gilts in Venery, And please them all. This made Alphonse to long For his acquaintance: but unhappily, As he was coming towards him, he di'd. The King did notwithstanding ask his son, If, like his father, he was fortifi'd 'Gainst amorous debates, in the back-bone? I am not (Sir) so like my father, as My mother, (quoth he:) but I have a sister That is a vigorous and bouncing lass, Known to be such, by all that ever kist her; Who though she be therein but a beginner, Hath right much of her fathers nature in her.

Of one Amalia, a Poetess of a very amorous disposition.

AM's best conceptions are (her vein being ta∣ctil) Infus'd by Cupid, rather then Apollo: Th' enthousiasm proceeding from the dactyl, Where after one long measure, two short follow: For she expresseth to the life Love's stances, When by this foot she scans her couched fancies.

How hard a thing it is, to judge of the minde by the outward carriage.

SIgnes that in nothing differ to the sense, Give of the minde no certain evidence: For many women make the self-same face, At the bruise of a blistred finger, as At the reception of a Paphian cane: Yet th' one yeelds pleasure; and the other, pain.

Of Dorothie, the wife of John-a-Stiles.

WHen Dorothy in the night-time had found The Cyprian Nag of honest John-an-Oke, Some damage fesant in her husbands ground, She straight laid hold on him, ev'n in her smock, And put him legally in her pound ouvert: For Dorothy was John-a-Stiles fem covert.

Of Womens precellencie.

ALl Lovers should their Mistresses, as oft As they can on their knees serve with affection, Whilst these sweet thing lets, looking still aloft, Rejoyce upon their backs at mans subjection. Hence the she 's Mistress call'd, as I suppose, And he the Servant, who with her doth close.

Of Tib, and her sweet-heart Vere.

I'Ve lost my blade, (quoth Tib) come search it Vere, Some higher, ho; some lower, ho; there, there.

Of the loving carriage of one Bosens to his wife Mary, after his return from a great Lord.

AT each of the four times that Bosens had Bebumped Mary in her genial bed, He telling her that this bout was for Dick, That other in remembrance of kinde Nick; This other yet in memory of Jack, And finally, this last for one Ned's sake; Which four (he said) were all of my Lords kinred. By me (quoth Moll then) you shall not be hindred In this kinde, your respects to testifie To the remainder of his pedigree. But finding weariness to seize on Bosens, She asked if my Lord had no more cosens.

Concerning the souldier John Gerthudenberg's Art of Printing; and the finding out of Gun∣powder by Bartholdus Swart, a Franciscan Fryar.

FAte so ordain'd, who knew best how conjunct Arts must needs be with Arms, to gain desert; That Powder was th' invention of a Monk, And from a Souldier came the Printing art: Since when, great things, by arts in gowns pro∣posed, Have often been by Mars, with guns disposed.

The expression of one, who did not love to burn for Religion.

T' Expose my self to death, I have no maw, For this or that opinion of the Law. Those that court Martyrdom, must have a motion Of secret breathing towards that promotion. They 're fittest to be Martyrs, whom God skills With the spruce art of doing Miracles. All I can do 's within the bounds of Nature, Which makes me think, that, for so high a matter, I have no call; and without a vocation, There 's no election, nor justification: Therefore I, in my pathway unto heaven, Had rather live with John, then die with Steven.

Of the Widow Philandra Quadrivira.

PHilandra, who wept little when she lost Her first three loving husbands, cried most Atrociously at the death of the fourth, Who was inferiour to them all in worth. The reason thereof being enquir'd, she told, It was, because she could not tell who should Her husband after that time be, as shee Knew at the burials of the other three.

That Wedlock is a mixed sort of life.

MArri, in French, importeth to be sad, And by mari, a husband is implyed: Merrie, with us, expresseth to be glad, As Marrie to b'in Matrimony tyed: Which four words signifie no less, in brief, Then that in Marriage is both joy and grief.

Of holy Ananias, and his spiritual sister Sarah.

WHen brother Ananias dusted had His holy sister Sarah in a bed; What would the wicked of the world say now, If they (quoth he) should see what we two do? Brother (quoth she) let us not care for what Flows from the mouth of any reprobat.

To the Batchelor Apicrogamos, who hoped to have the wife he was to make choice of, endow∣ed (besides her being favoured of Fortune) with manyer and more excellent perfections, both in body and minde, then Nature readily alloweth.

YOu cannot love a Virgin that is proud, Though she be rich; nor indigent, though fair. And without beauty, you 'll have none that's good: She must be noble, handsome, wise, and rare In all accomplishments: being such, you'll take her. But for your wife to get so choice a maid, You must go to Prometheus, and bespeak her: For there is none of those things ready made: And Kings would gain by one of such per∣fection, Though they should quit their Crowns for her affection.

On Maids, and Fathers.

SOme we call maids, tho they lack maidenheads; As milk-maids, chamber-maids, & waiting-maids: And some without paternities, are stil'd Fathers, although they never had a child. Thus Use, on no relation grounded, gives Things names related, sans correlatives.

The expression of a young married girl of some thirteen yeers of age, and little withal, when she saw a tame mouse, tyed to a string in the pocket of her husband; who though married some three weeks before that, had, for fear of hurting his bride, delayed the performance of his Matrimonial duty.

Sp.

IF of that pretty Mouses skin I had A pair of Gloves, sweet-heart, I would be glad.

Enc.

It is too little for that use, (quoth he.)

Repl.

Little and young, will stretch, and wider be.

Of frolick Ned, and the old houswife Gamer Gow.

Speech.

COme let me have a chicken, Gamer Gow.

Encounter.

Have I no use for chicks, but give them you? With this, Ned falls upon her, to him tugs her, And so with kisses and embraces hugs her; That thinking he had been in earn'st, she said, Take chicks, and hens, and all, sweet Ned: Take chicks, and hens, and all, sweet Ned.

The words of a certain Captain's daughter to her fathers Colonel, and her own Depuce∣lator, when, after she was married, he would have embrac'd her, as formerly.

SIr, the parol I must not violate, Which I gave to my husband: for though at The same gate which let fornication in, Might pass adult'ry, and a greater sin; Yet of my body now the Garison Being under th' absolute command of one, Who likely will not that admittance grant, Which I did do, when I was governant: You must withdraw, lest if the Sentry call (As he must needs) upon the Caporal, You forthwith be committed as a Spie, That would betray the fort to th' enemie.

Why the Pope should dwell at Rome.

THe sov'rain Pastor of the Christian flock Should in the City built by Romulus Have his abode, where he, on Peters rock, May rear the fabrick of his Church: and thus That Rome be rul'd b' a Shepherd, it is fit, Because he was a Shepherd founded it.

Of Penisecto.

BY having sayl'd into the Delphian Creek, It cost him th'amputation of his pr —; Which makes me think it was a stormy blast, That thus enforc'd him to hew down the mast.

Of a Taylor, and his Sweetheart.

THe Gentile Taylor could not chuse but please her In ev'ry fashion, which she most applauded: For with his yard he always took her measure, Then stitch'd her seam, and with his needle sow'd it: Yet though he glanc'd a little at the rest, The chiefest cunning was belowe the wast.

Of Cunnus, and Mentula.

OMnis aptatur cunnus viro soli; And therefore is of the male-gener wholly: But mentulam foemella recipit; And therefore we do feminine make it.

Of four young men traveling with a Merchant (whose name was Edward) towards Don∣caster.

FOur youths being riding with the Merchant Ned, One of the Gallants ask'd a Country-blade Encountring them, How many miles there were From that place to the Town of Doncaster. Ten, (quoth the Hoyden.) Ten? that is not right (Quoth Ned) I'm sure from hence we have but eight. Well (quoth the Bumpkin) you 're a Merchant, Sir, And therefore I will use you kindly here: You shall have all for eight; but of these men That ride with you, to each it shall cost ten.

Of Cynon's Courtship to his Mistress Anne, who had some skill in Arithmetick and Algebra.

GIve me one kiss,* 1.1 kiss, yea sixty more, and now Five hundred above that (dear Anne) bestow, And yet six hundred beyond these, from the Ambrosia of thy lip, distil on me:

For the whole being in numeration, Six thousand and five hundred sixty one, Its Zenzizenzick root I 'll take, and that In solid inches put in you know what. Geometrically thus by measure shall I pay your Numbers Arithmetical, And feast your touch more sweetly with my clips, Then my taste was with honey from your lips.

Of Understanders, and Underliers.

MEn first of maids are understanders; then Maids underliers fall to be of men.

Of Mistress Alce, and John Ackwards.

A Lice, in falling out, did cuff John Ackwards; But John fell in with Alce, and cuff'd her backwards.

On the Merchant Kapees.

WHilst Kapees kept his shop in th' old Exchange, His wife abroad with her sweet-heart did range; And all at the free cost of Master Kapees: Sic vos non vobis mellis'catis apes.

Concerning Nick and his wife Capraena.

NIck to his wife Capraena gave some money, Wherewith to Dick, for tickling of her C— She bought a bisk, Eringos, and Anchovas: Sic vos non vobis fertis'ratra boves.

Upon the Merchant Dose, and his wife Glossinde.

THe Merchant Dose, no sooner would bestow Upon his wife Glossinde, one piece, or two; But she would give it straight to 's prentice Davis: Sic vos non vobis nid'ficatis aves.

Of Grisel, and her beloved Ephebos.

GRisel maintain'd, upon her husbands means, Ephebos, whom t' instruct she took the pains, In feats of love, wherein he was a novice: Sic vos non vobis vell'ra fertis oves.

Leasure and Solitariness are great impugners of Chastity.

LAsses intrusted to their own discretion, Roaming longst sev'ral rooms, and spacious beds, Can hardly shun an amorous impression: For empty chambers make lascivious maids, And serve in thoughts, by which they're so en∣tic'd, That when a Lover comes, they are surpris'd.

Of Jack and Doll.

WHilst Jack was 'twixt Doll's legs, Sir, marry me, Quoth she, and you shall do 't, although my mo∣ther Would not give way thereto. Come, come, says he, We must do first one thing before another. Then did he put her quickly to the action, Without the leasure of one thoughts reflection.

Of the free-spoken woman Briccona.

BRiccona being desir'd to let us know The place, wherein she first did undergo

The touch of man: and whether it was in The house, or field, that she receiv'd Dondin. In neither, (quoth she) for as Love did mount To scale my walls, I took it in my C—.

Of Pet, and his Mistress Kate.

PEt's preparation was a complement, She, being in his account well qualified: Kate 's expectation was an implement, He being in her account well quantified. Thus all the better nature had endow'd her, He in her nature all the more imbu'd her.

Why the carnal union of man and woman is ex∣pressed many times by the name of Venery.

TH' act, which both sexes hath so oft combin'd In Loves delight, is termed Venery; Because the male and female were enjoyn'd, On Venus day, t'increase and multiply: That Planet shining; which we now call Ve∣nus, When God t' obey this precept did ordain us.

Of Knestiosa.

LUst is the onely cause of all her love, And love alone unto her life gives breath: That she may live in lust, she lusts to live; Without the which, life is to her but death. Her signes of life, meer deeds of lust do prove; Nor beats her pulse, but by the act of Love.

The Penance of Licentious writing.

IF any wanton lines have issu'd from My unaffected Quill, I hold it meet, They suffer like adulterers, and come Inwrap'd before the Readers in a sheet: That he or she may give the milder sentence, To see them in this habit of repentance.

Of the Puritane woman Ruth.

RUth is so taken up with faith, that she Hath left no room at all for Charitie: Nor cares she for good works (her faith being ampler) But those, which she doth work upon the sampler.

Of the opposite effects of Printing, and Gun∣powder, discovered to the knowledge of the world within seventy nine yeers of one ano∣ther.

PRinting of late hath been found out, to further Learning, wherby one boy may work more then Ten men could do before, for our instruction: And Powder invented was, so apt to murther, That one therewith can now kill many'r men, Then twenty formerly, for our destruction: That, being in knowledge sudden; this, in Choler; This, kills a Souldier; that, revives a Scholar.

How a certain resolute and audacious Wooer was so confident in conversing with his Mi¦stress, of her gracious acceptance of, and yeel¦ding to his amorous request, that being les•• eloquent, then judicious, he broke off on a sud∣den, the thred of those complements, he had not the skill to prosecute; and supplied his lack of discourse with a more pathetically expres∣sive action.

THe sprightly courter of a gallant Lady, Stopping the current of his lovely speeches

Referr'd his mind, both time and place being ready, T' an orator residing in his Br—; And said, Of what I've left yet unexprest, The bearer, Madam, will declare the rest.

Of one Gametes.

GAm said t' his wife, that it was not the fashion Of men of great account and reputation, To do it above once a night, or twice At most: and that t' have carnal dealing thrice, Or oftner, was the custom but of Scullions, Hogrubbers, Porters, Colliers, and Slabgullions. But sore repented he, that h' had not said, It was the fashion rather of the Mede, Turk, Persian, Muscoviter, Dane, Polonian, Hungarian, Tartar, Swede, and Macedonian; Who were not to be found so easily As Colliers, and the other scondrel fry.

Of Barnabee, and his wife Santarella.

BAr coming late to a promiscuous meeting, Where the lights out, each brother was a gree∣ting His sister with a holy touch; his lot Was to kiss his own wife, whom he knew not. Then, falling in to be more closely buckel'd, By his own knocking made himself a cuckold.

To one Meg, who was modest at the Table, and with her Sweet hearts in the Chamber, lasci∣vious.

ALthough you make two morsels of a fig, Wherby to some you seem extremely meek, Yet well I know it is your humour, Meg, At no more then one bite to snatch a p—: As if your touches stomack could digest More substance, then the stomack of your tast.

Of such as being of a disposition kinde enough otherwise, will perhaps take exceptions at the freedom of many of my Verses.

SOme women scorn to read, or hear a word, Whereof the sense may to the minde afford (Without a periphrastical expression) The plain downright, and literal impression Of any thing they call obscene and bawdy: As if the eyes, and ears, of all the body, Were the sole parts must be exposed to Chaste objects. Yet, seeing Use hath made it so, Many of my loose Verses will fall under The burden of their censure; though I wonder By what hypocrisie it is, they can Hate lines for that, which they love best in man:

And therefore do I here conjure them by Their thoughts, as be'ng less rigorous, that they Geld not my book: for it may furnish wit, Will serve t' ingender others out of it.

Of Ralph the Logician, and his Sweet-heart Grisel.

RAlph made, by vertue of his Genitories, In spight of Grisel's dialectick Criticks, An Isagoge to her Categories, And Hermenia to her Analyticks: Keeping the method thus of Aristotle, To taste the Nectar of her Paphian bottle.

Of the two robbed Merchants, Dick and Ben.

AS Dick and Ben were trav'ling to Belfast, They met with robbers, who first bound them fast; And having pick'd their Cloakbags, left them then. O I'm undone (quoth Dick:) Be pleas'd (quoth Ben) T'undo me then; for I would fain b' unty'd. Thus of these two it may be certifi'd, That each of them was fast bound with strong ropes, And both undone, for having lost their hopes.

Of Hanse and Ned.

HAnse with an unstretch'd hand, and the palm down, Pretending strength, said he might lay a crown, That Ned could not, with all the force he had, Fold in his middle and ring-finger. Ned (Thinking Hanse spoke it out of bravery) Employ'd his pith, and did those fingers ply. Which done, Hanse fore and little one in scorn, Did point out Ned the double-forked horn.

How a certain Lover, and his Mistress, played together on the Virginals.

THey touch'd the keys with lovely strokes most quaintly, And in their motion s'uniformly dangled, That tails did up, whilst heads went down con∣joyntly, The found-boord echoing, as the start-up brangled; Being in their sharps and breaks, so quick and present, That never was a harmony more pleasant.

Of the Amazonian Queen, who made a pro∣gress to visit Alexander the Great: and of the Queen of Sheba.

NIcolia travel'd to see Salomon, And Minithea the Pollaean King, With cross intentions: for the first went on To taste of wit, the second of a thing More palpable: yet both their aims did finde; This, in the body; th' other, by the minde.

Of the Poet Poll, and his Sweet-heart Saenura, who likewise had some skill in Versifying.

WHen Poll met with the Poetess Saenura, He tim'd & rim'd it with a mutual capture, Scanning his dactyl still with her caesura, To prosecute a Heliconian rapture: Whence sprung two streams not parallel'd by any That ever flowed from the Hippocrene.

A brisk, handsome, young Semstress, whose shop was in the Loken-booths at Edin∣burgh, taking occasion upon a time, about seven a clock at night, in the Winter-season to go thorow St. Giles, thereto adjacent

stumbled by chance (whilst she thought there had not been any living creature in the Church but her self) upon a pillar, where there was sitting a proper, young, gallant Cavalier, (who but three hours before had drop'd a thou∣sand pounds for his Composition) by which unexpected accident, she (on a sudden) fall∣ing in the amorous embraces of that vigorous Gentleman, whose ticklesh blood, by the glimpse which a glimmering light did afford him of her beauty, swelled up his veins so full, with the influence of Love and Lust, that, like a valiant Champion of Venus, (maugre her resistance) prosecuting the assault, he in a trice stormed her fort, entred, and took possession thereof, and therein posed his stand∣ing Centry. She in this surprisal (like those to whom sometimes bold Intruders at first, prove afterwards most acceptable Guests) taking some pleasure, concurred with the Conquerour, whose spirits, joyntly with hers, mounting upon the same degrees of mutual delights, furnished subject, in this adventrous Rapture, for the following Epigram.

A Pretty Lass did ask, whilst she was shaking a loose-coat-brangle with an unknown man, If formerly h' had seen her: I'm but making my 'quaintance now (quoth he) as well 's I can. By which means he so largely did imbue her, That whether he her saw or no, he knew her.

FINIS.

Notes

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