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Epigrammes in the oldest cut, and newest fashion A twise seuen houres (in so many weekes) studie no longer (like the fashion) not vnlike to continue. The first seuen. Iohn Weeuer.
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Weever, John, 1576-1632.
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was to gaine To make this match her frends he forward fouÌ„d If but this one thing he himselfe would grant To feoffee her by yeare in forty pound He tried his wit for wit oft comes by want And brought them strait within his studie doore And there he shew'd them old Orations A common place-booke of ten quire and more Latines Verses Theames and Declamations He swore these cost four hundred pound at least May be at learning he had spent so much Thats fortie pound a yeare by interest But marke her friends seru'd him a craftie tuch You shal haue her say they but first know well For so much coine you must your papers sell Epig. 22 De se Some men marriage doe commend And all their life in wiving spend But if that I should wiues haue three God keepe me from Polygamie Ile giue the diuell two for pay If he will fetch the third away Epig 23 Ad Michaelem Drayton The Peeres of heau'n kept a parliament And for Wittes-mirrour Philip Sidney sent To keepe another when they doe intend Twentie to one for Drayton they will send Yet hade him leaue his learning so it fled And vow'd to liue with thee since he was dead Finis To the right worshipfull and noble minded Gentleman Robert Dalton of Pilling Esquier FEaring right Worshipfull lest I should die altogether vngratefull Occasion euery day proffers herselfe to performe more than my wit dare presume to promise and it will be long I feare me before they iumpe in a full point In the meane time take I beseech you a few lines in this waste peece of paper in part of a Schollers payment And withall if not a Gerfalcon thinke yet I send you a Hawke which will be agreeable to my wish and your Worships worthinesse Ioh Weeuer The second weeke Epig. 1 Ad Robertum Dalton Armig. GRace thou kind Dalton with a smiling looke These rude pend lines of this my secoÌ„d book And I my Muse and Graces three wil praise Thy iudgement wit and valour But I my Muse and Graces are too few To pen thy praise to whom al praise is due Epig 2 In Tortonem Torto hath crost his ierkin and his hose So without crosses Torto neuer goes Except whenas he dallies with his whore For then crost Torto runnes vpon the score By all good tokens Roll a kissing tooke And Item for did set on Tortoes booke His greatest crosse that wil crosse al I dread Is he wants crosses for to crosse his head Epig. 3 In Titum When hare-brain'd Titus Desunt nonnulla Epig. 4. When witte is waining thus we write of want As though our workes were all lost by the way Or for their goodnesse stolne were we vaunt And printed sore against our wills we say Lets write in want for I haue tried this Than one too many want one better is Epig. 5. De nomine in Marmore sculpto Great Marcus made his pure proud marble toom In Pauls Church wall for lacke of better roome Foule snake-ei'd Enuy s'daining his great praise Hath cut M. thus ‖ as thogh she meant to raze His name quite forth of Fames immortal booke And breakes the stones makes all vnseemly look If stones and names decay what wonder then Thogh death destroy vs weak and mortal men Epig. 6. In Ruffinum Ruffinus lost his tongue on stage And wot ye how he made it knowne He spittes it out in bloudy rage And told the people he had none The fond spectators said he acted wrong The dumbest man may say he hath no tongue Epig 7. In eundem Ruffinus hath no tongue why For now he lost one Ruffinus hath a tongue why He saies he hath none Epig. 8. De Carione Cario bragges and sweares his wife's a maide A louely Lucrece or Diana â—athâ—â— Some sacred saint in womans clothes arraide And why his children are so like their father Yet Carioe's cousoned do what e're he can She thinks of him lies with another man Epig. 9. In Coruum Now old-cook Coruus you which do yet scorn it That your faire Fulua with her golden haire Should rub your head afterwards then horn it And al because you see no hornes appeare But in thy mouth another man more seeth In faith thou'rt hornd thou want'st thine vpper teeth Epig. 10.  Nihil his nisi carmina desunt Epig. 11. In D. D. Palmer Palmers in woods liu'd onely by the Palme And gaue to passengers the sweetest balme In wildernesse when any went astray Then Palmers set them in the ready way So Palmer liues by our fresh Palme the Queene Victorious Palme-tree grow thou euer greene And in a wood or wildernesse doth tell The passengers which way they may goe well For the world is a wildernesse of woe Like passengers the people in it goe Thus Palmer liues and giues the sweetest balm To Palmer then of right belongs the palme Epig. 12. In Castilionem malum quendam Poetam Castilio writes when he might hold his tongue Castilio craues though pardon for his writing That's to confesse vnto the world his wrong Which of the world at least deserue's endiung Well thus the world is guilty of his sin And the world hangs how can the world hang him Epig. 13. In eundem Castilioe's sicke vpon it Ioue help him in his anguish Lest that worse verse he vomit So oft as he doth languish Epig. 14. Ad Philerotem A great demeane friend Phileros you haue And seuen wiues all lying in their graue But yet the churchyard farre more profit yeelds Than all the reuenewes of your fairest fields Epig. 15. In Stratum Fortie foure pence brought Stratus to a play Fortie foure pounds he carried yet away A Coni-catcher who calls him for the same A Money-catcher may be Stratus name Epig 16. In obitum piâ—ssimi sapientissimi omnique virtutum genere cumulatissimi viri Richards Vpeheri Armig. How Nature triumph t at this Vpchers birth Swore he should be th ornament of the earth In him she placed her imperiall throne As though mankind remaind in him alone All Wisedome Vertue Courage in his brest As in their fairest lodge should alwaies rest But when Death saw this better worke of Nature And all perfections found in this one creature Death likewise triumpht and was wondrous glad That such a Champion to assault he had Whom if he killd he killd he kild we find All Wisdome Vertue Courage and Mankind Epig. 17 In Caluum Some say that Caluus lately lost his haire By Paris garden bayting a white beare The wiser sort affirme that he was shauen In Deuils ditch Knaues acre Cuckolds hauen Aske Caluus he of scripture makes a scorne Naked hee le die for naked he was borne Epig. 18 In obitum Mirmedomis Here lies the man who whilom in a trance At Tiburne di'de wounded by men of France For wading Tiburne there he got a quease Which brought the perpendicular disease And afterward of rope-seede tooke a surfet Which causd him be canvast in a