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A38841
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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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1654
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Wing E3558; ESTC R14128
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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 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 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'adjunct 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 Amphibolos to another that asked him the question AMphibolos made answer t 'one demanding Why knowledge may be tak'n in that acceptation 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 betwixt 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
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 'T is 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 perish To a lusty strong man named Bently on the day of his marriage with a young weak stripling 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 tactil 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 Gunpowder 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 proposed 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