A collection of the choicest epigrams and characters of Richard Flecknoe being rather a new work, then [sic] a new impression of the old.

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Title: A collection of the choicest epigrams and characters of Richard Flecknoe being rather a new work, then [sic] a new impression of the old.
Author: Flecknoe, Richard, d. 1678?
Publication: [London] :: Printed for the author,; 1673.
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Ʋpon one Sweating in Cornelius Tub.
WHo's this that lives so like Diogenes,
For he liv'd in a Tub, and so does this?
Some Anchorit perhaps who here does dwell,
In solitary Tub instead of Cell?
Or some Tub-Preacher, who does take such pain,
To Preach 'gainst Babel, as he sweats again.
Pox! Now I know 'tis one i'th' case he's in,
Sweats more for's own, than Eves or Adam's sin;
And's in so sweet a pickle, I suppose,
He's glad himself, that he has ne'er a nose.
Yet he's so far from railing against Women,
And from repentance of his former sinning.
He calls it still the sweet sin of the flesh,
Although't be rather powder'd now, than fresh.
And as for Woman says, howe'er th'ave s••rv'd him,
A Woman made him, and a Woman marr'd him.