Delight and pastime, or, Pleasant diversion for both sexes consisting of good history and morality, witty jests, smart repartees, and pleasant fancies, free from obscene and prophane expressions, too frequent in other works of this kind, whereby the age is corrupted in a great measure, and youth inflamed to loose and wanton thoughts : this collection may serve to frame their minds to such flashes of wit as may be agreeable to civil and genteel conversation / by G.M.

SCHOLARS.

I.

IT was a pat Answer, which a Scholar made to Queen Elizabeth; who asked him in Latin, how often he had been whipt? His Answer was in these Words of Virgil,

Infandum, Regina, jubes renovare Dolorem.

II.

No less ingenious was that poor Schol-boy, whose Condition the Queen being in∣formed of, Her Majesty bad him make some Verses upon this, Pauper ubique jacet; Which he wittily performed thus,

In Thalamis, Regina, tuis hâc Nocte jacerem, Si verum hoc esset, Pauper ubique jacet.

III.

A Scholar riding on Horseback, and finding that whatever he said to the Horse

in English could not make him go fast enough, try'd at last what he could do in Latin. Non ibis, mala Bestia, says he to his Horse, etiam admotis Calcaribus? That is, Won't you go neither, you dull Animal, thô I spur thee never so much?

IV.

Another gone a hunting was forewar∣ned to be silent, lest he should fright the Game away. He hapned to see some Rabbets, which made him cry out in La∣tin, Ecce Cuniculi. The Rabbets hearing his Voice fled, and he wondred (said he) how they should come to understand Latin.

V.

An University Scholar being so hot in Discourse at the Hall-Table that the Fel∣lows could hear him, the Dean sent to him to be quiet, with these words, Vir sapit qui pauca loquitur. To which he returned this Answer, Vir loquitur qui pauca sapit.