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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50811	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.	Miege, Guy, 1644-1718?	1697 (1697)	Wing M2008; ESTC R42126	47,689	172

as that was prophane of the Roman Amici dum vivimus Vivamus XXX Another did set down for his Epitaph this godly Admonition Look Man before thee how thy Death hasteth Look Man behind thee how thy Life wasteth Look on thy right Side how Death thee desireth Look on thy left side how Sin thee beguileth Look Man above thee Joys that ever shall last Look Man beneath thee the Pains without rest XXXI Diego de Valles made this Inscription for his Tomb at Rome Certa Dies nulli est Mors certa incerta sequentum Cura locet Tumulum qui sapit ante sibi XXXII Dr. Caius a Learned Physician of Cambridg and a Cofounder of Gonvil and Caius Colledg has only on his Monument there FVI CAIVS XXXIII Julius Scaliger only this SCALIGERI QVOD RELIQVVM XXXIV And Cardinal Pool's is as short but more savouring of Christian Antiquity These are the Words DEPOSITVM POLI CARDINALIS XXXV Mr. Burbidge the Tragedian had one fit for his Profession EXIT BURBIDGE XXXVI And Mr. Weymark a constant Walker in Paul's was as well fitted with this DEFESSVS SVM AMBVLANDO XXXVII Upon Sir Philip Sidney I find this England had his Body for she it fed Netherland his Blood in her Defence shed The Heavens have his Soul the Arts have his Fame The Souldier the Grief the World his good Name XXXVIII Upon a Young Man of great hope a Student of Oxford made this Short was thy Life Yet livest thou ever Death has her due Yet diest thou never XXXIX Upon Sir Francis Vere When Vere sought Death arm'd with his Sword and Shield Death was afraid to meet him in the Field But when his Weapons he had laid aside Death like a Coward struck him and he died XL. Here is a short one but without any stress of Wit upon an ancient Knight Sir ..... Jernegan buried cross-legged at Somerly in Suffolk Jesus Christ both God and Man Save thy Servant Jernegan XLI This following was made for a bad Liver who was buried in the Night under the Name of Menalcas and that without any Ceremony Here lieth Menalcas as dead as a Log Who lived like a Devil died like a Dog But I mistake here he doth not ly For from this Place he parted by and by Making from hence his Descent into Hell Without either Book Candle or Bell. XLII Pleasant was the Epitaph made upon an ignorant French Abbot in these words Cy gît un ignorant Abbé Qui ne savoit ni A ni B. XLIII A drunken Man Elderton by Name had this made upon him Hîc situs est sitiens atque ebrius Eldertonus Quid dico hîc situs est hîc potiùs sitis est XLIV Upon an old Miser Sparges by Name this was made Here lieth Father Sparges That died to save Charges XLV Upon a capricious Man this Here lieth Willing Wills With his Head full of Wind-mills XLVI Upon another who was ever out of humour Here lieth he Who with himself could never agree XLVII On a litigious Man Here lies he who in his Life With every Man had some Strife And now he 's dead and in his Grave His Bones no quiet Rest can have For lay your Ear unto this Stone And you shall hear how every Bone Doth crack and beat against each other Pray for his Soul's Health gentle Brother XLVIII One who had a Shrew to his Wife writ upon her this Epitaph We lived one and twenty Year As Man and Wife together I could not stay her longer here She 's gone I know not whither But did I know I do protest I speak it not to flatter Of all the Women in the World I swear I 'd ne're come at her Her Body is bestowed well This handsom Grave did hide her And sure her Soul is not in Hell The Devil could ne're abide her But I suppose she 's soar'd aloft For in the late great Thunder Methought I heard her roaring Voice Rending the Clouds asunder XLIX He was more happy in a Wife who wrote this Distich upon her after her Decease Quae pia quae prudens quae provida pulchra fuisti Vxor in aeternum Chara MARIA vale L. Upon a notorious Liar basely extracted yet by reason of his Name claiming Kindred of a most noble Family this Epitaph was made Here lies M. F. the Son of a Bearward Who would needs bear Arms in spight of the Herald Which was a Lion as black as a Jeat-stone With a Sword in his Paws instead of a Whet-stone Five Sons had this Liar 't is worth the revealing Two arrant Liars and three hang'd for Stealing His Daughters were nine never free from Sores Three crooked Apostles and six arrant Whores LI. Upon a Dier He that died so oft in sport Died at last no colour for 't LII Upon a Puritan Lock-smith A Zealous Lock-smith dy'd of late And did arrive at Heaven's Gate He stood without and would not knock Because he meant to pick the Lock LIII On a Gold-smith that Tipt Stone-Jugs with Silver He that did tip Stone-Jugs about the Brim Met with a black Pot and the Pot tipt him LIV. Upon a Wrestler Death to this Wrestler gave a fine Fall That tript up his Heels and took no hold at all LV. On a Butcher that marry'd a Tanner's Daughter A sitter Match has never bin The Flesh is marry'd to the Skin LVI Upon Cosier the Cobler Come gentle Reader gentle Friend Come and behold poor Cosier's End Longer in length his Life had gone But that he had no Last so long O mighty Death whose Art can kill The Man that made Soles at his will LVII On a Child drowned catching of an Apple Disce meo malo posse carere Malo LVIII Upon two beautiful Children Brother and Sister who wanted each of them an Eye Lumine Acon dextro caruit Leonilla sinistro Et potuit Formâ vincere uterque Deos. Parve Puer Lumen quod habes concede Sorori Sic tu caecus AMOR sic erit illa VENVS LIX U●●● troublesom talkative Woman Here at la●t doth she lie in quiet Who whilst ●he lived was ever unquiet Her Husband prays if by her Grave you walk You 'd gently tread for if waked she 'll talk LX. I conclude with that Ingenious Epitaph made upon Lot's Wife by Count Emanuel Thesaurus in these Words Quam stupes muliebrem statuam Tanto artificio fictam Artifice caruit Genita fuit sine Scalpello sculpta Et quod impensiùs mirere Olim spirabilis loquuta Brevi Foemina fuit Dicerem est Nisi prodigium videretur Foeminam esse tacere Sola Mortalium nec Imaginis egens nec Sepulchri Ipsa suae stupiditatis Imago In semita haeret Et in suâ Statuâ tumulatur Licet igitur intra Metamorphoses numerare Foeminam ex verâ fictam Imò nunc veram quia fictam Nam quid in Foeminis videas nisi fictum Itaque mentiri solita se ipsam mentitur Mortua Vivam simulat vel