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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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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 endowed 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 perfection 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 Depucelator 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 Doncaster 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 6561 qq 729 cube 81 q. 9 R. 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 It s 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