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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

V. Upon Execution-Days it was the Way of a Gentleman to send out his Footmen to see the Execution and that he called sending them to School VI. A Man of Quality intertaining at Dinner several Persons of his Rank one of his principal Servants did something that did not please him for which he gave him a Check before all the Company in Words to this purpose You little know says he how to carry your self as you ought Sir reply'd the Servant how should I know better that never lived from you VII A Gentleman being gone to wait upon another one of his Servants told him There was no speaking to his Master he being in a secret Rapture with his Lady VIII A diligent Lackey come all in a muck-sweat to his Master told him Sir I made all the haste I could You need say no more reply'd his Master for I smell it out very well IX A Gentleman in Company with others said he knew not an honest Man and strenuously maintained his Proposition which some of the Company took offence at Whilst they were hot upon this Debate a Servant of the Gentleman in whose House they were came to tell his Master there was an honest Man below who desired to speak to him An honest Man said his Master how do you know that you Rascal Upon which words he gave him a blow with his Cane Do you pretend to be more knowing than that Gentleman who says he knows not so much as one honest Man The Blow was given and the Servant cried out amain But to quiet him his Master gave him a Crown-piece MARRY'D MEN AND WOMEN I. A Man lookt upon to be Rich but very much Indebted courted a good Fortune and got her Some Days before their Marriage he used this Stratagem to smother the Reflexions he expected upon the account of his Debts Being in the House of his future Mother-in-Law he walkt one day wrapt up with his Cloak in a melancholy posture Upon sight whereof she fearing he was out of Order asked him several times What was the Matter with him To which he answered as often Nothing Soon after he was marry'd his Mother-in-Law seeing what she little expected a Crowd of Creditors with him Son saith she you have deceived me You may remember Madam if you please reply'd the Son-in-Law how often I answered Nothing when you asked me before I marry'd What was the Matter with me II. An old rich Counsellor had only one Daughter courted by a young proper and handsom Gentleman but sunk in his Fortune Who to raise himself in the World made it his Business to compass this Lady with her Father's Consent But the Meanness of his Estate and her Father's Covetousness must needs be two great Obstacles However he found a way by his Industry to bring his Design about Having got the Lady's good Will he goes one Day with a good Fee to her Father in order to have his Advice He told him how the Case stood with him but concealed the Party The Counsellor pleased with the Fee advised him to Marry the Lady privately and offered to give him a Note under his Hand to a Parson of his acquaintance that should Marry them with all speed and secrecy The Business was done accordingly and the young Couple were marry'd Which done he brought his Wife to ask her Father's Blessing Who was not a little surprised but pleased at last with the Stratagem III. A Lady unmarried who had two Sisters the elder married to a Duke and the younger going to be marry'd to another Duke was not a little vexed to see her self as she said between two Stools the Breech on the Ground IV. A vertuous Lady being desired by another to tell her what Method she took to preserve her Husband's Affection to her I make it says she my Business to please him in every Thing and to bear patiently whatever comes amiss from him V. Another being asked in a scornful manner what Portion she had brought to her Husband What you never had answered she and that is Chastity VI. A Man seeing his Wife often whispering in the Ear of a Gentleman desired to know what it was I defy you answered she to guess for we speak good Things of you VII A Gentleman having got his Wife a Beauty convicted of Adultery sent her to a Monastery and in her place took a Concubine Which being discoursed of in Company one said If the Gentleman had such a fancy to a Whore he needed not to have parted with his Wife VIII Pisistratus being resolved upon a second Match his Children asked him whether it was for any Discontent he had received from them Far from that reply'd he for I am so well satisfy'd with your Carriage to me that I am willing to have more Children of so good a Temper IX A Gentleman being resolved to Marry because forsooth he wanted Company anights and had no body to speak to a Woman was brought unto him in these Words Sir here 's one that will keep you talking X. Another Married in the Morning was so little affected with it that he forgot it before Night and was a going to lie at his old Lodging had not his Man remembred him of his Spouse XI A Lady had a Husband very kind and complaisant to her but that he never minded the sublime Pleasures of a conjugal Life She complained of this to her own Relations and they to him But they speaking of it only in general Terms he said he wondered at his Wife's Dissatisfaction sure he was that he never denied her any Thing she desired Upon this her Relations were fain to come to the Point and to tell him down-right the Cause of her Discontent She is to blame answered her Husband for she never asked me for that she so much wants And they replying that those things are usually granted without asking he made this Return That Thing says he is little worth which is not worth asking XII A French Countess being married to one whom she had no Love for they were fain at last to part and live asunder The Countess after some time changed her Religion and being asked the Reason of it I changed said she that I may not meet my Husband in the next World XIII A Minister having married a couple of his Friends told them afterwards in Merriment that if they could not agree they should come to him again and he would unmarry them It was not long before Dissentions arose between them and they went both to the Minister in order to be divorced Who asked them which of the two had the greatest Desire to leave the other For says he I married you till Death does you part and before you can be parted I must dispatch one of you XIV If Adam asked one were still living how could he Marry again all Women being come from him in a strait Line XV. A marry'd Man suspected of Impotency met with another who had often jeered him about

Happy in her Poet who in one Distich thus expressed her Princely Parentage Match and Issue Magna Ortu majorque Viro sed maxima Partu Hîc jacet HENRICI Filia Sponsa Parens IV. Upon King HENRY II who by his own Right annexed to the Crown of England the French Provinces of Anjou Maine and Touraine by his Wife Aquitain and by Conquest Ireland Sufficit hic Tumulus cui non suffecerat Orbis Res brevis ampla mihi cui fuit ampla brevis V. Upon King RICHARD surnamed Coeur de Lion renowned for his Conquest of Cyprus and great Exploits in the Holy Land Hîc RICHARDE jaces Sed Mors si cederet Armis Victa timore tui cederet ipsa tuis VI. This Epitaph was also made upon him Istius in Morte perimit Formica Leonem Proh dolor in tanti Funere Mundus obit VII Queen JANE who died in Child-birth of King Edward VI and used for her Device a Phenix being her paternal Crest had this alluding thereunto for her Epitaph Phaenix Jana jacet nato Phaenice dolendum Saecula Phaenices nulla tulisse duos VIII The said King EDWARD being snatched away by Death in his Youth had this Distich made upon him Rex Regis Natus Regum Decus unica Regni Spesque Salusque sui conditur hoc Tumulo IX Upon the Removal of Queen ELIZABETH's Body from Richmond where she died by water to Whitehall there were written these passionate doleful Lines The Queen was brought by Water to Whitehall At every stroke the Oars Tears let fall More clung about the Barge Fish under water Wept out their Eyes of Pearl and swam blind after I think the Barge-men might with easier Thighs Have row'd her thither in her Peoples Eyes For howsoe'r thus much my Thoughts have scann'd She 'd come by Water had she come by Land X. Upon Prince HENRY eldest Son of King James I. Reader Wonder think it none Thô I speak and am a Stone Here is shrin'd celestial Dust And I keep it but in trust Should I not my Treasure tell Wonder then you might as well How this Stone could chuse but break If it had not learnt to speak Hence amaz'd and ask not me Whose these sacred Ashes be Purposely it is concealed For if that should be revealed All that read would by and by Melt themselves to tears and dy XI On Queen ANN the said Prince's Mother by King James March with his Wind has struck a Cedar tall And weeping April mourns the Cedar's Fall And May intends no Flow'rs her Month shall bring Since she must lose the Flow'r of all the Spring Thus Marches Wind has caused April showers And yet sad May must lose her Flow'r of Flowers XII Upon the great GVSTAVVS King of Sweden who died Victor in the Field Seek not Reader here to find Intomb'd the Throne of such a Mind As did the brave GVSTAVVS fill Whom neither Time nor Death can kill Go and read all Caesar's Acts The Rage of Scythian Cataracts What Epire Greece and Rome has done What Kingdoms Goths Vandals won Read all the World 's heroick Story It is but half this Hero's Glory They got their Victories living But our Hero got this dying XIII This short one also was made upon him Upon this Place the great GVSTAVVS died While Victory lay weeping by his side XIV The following Epitaph was made upon Pope LVCIVS born at Luca who of Bishop of Ostia became Pope of Rome and died at Verona Luca dedit tibi lucem LUCI Pontificatum Ostia Papatum Roma Verona mori Imò Verona dedit tibi verè vivere Roma Exilium Curas Ostia Luca mori XV. For Theobald of Bloys Earl of Champagne Nephew to our Henry I Giraldus Cambrensis made this Ille Comes Comes ille pius Theobaldus eras quem Gaudet habere Polus Terra carere dolet Non Hominem possum non audeo dicere Numen Mors probat hunc Hominem Vita fuisse Deum Trans Hominem citraque Deum plus hoc minus illud Nescio quis Neuter inter Vtrumque fuit XVI William Earl of Pembroke and Marshal of England being buried in the Temple-Church had this Epitaph made for him Sum quem Saturnum sibi sensit Hibernia Solem Anglia Mercurium Normannia Gallia Martem XVII Something like it was that for Richard de Clare Earl of Glocester and Hartford who died in 1602. Hîc Pudor Hippoliti Paridis Gena Sensus Ulyssis Aeneae Pietas Hectoris Ira jacet XVIII The Duke of Suffolk and his Brother Sons of Charles Brandon who died of the Sweating Sickness at Bugden were buried together with this Vna Fides vivos conjunxit Religio una Ardor in studiis unus unus Amor. Abstulit hos simul una Dies duo Corpora jungit Vna Vrna ac Mentes unus Olympus habet XIX Upon the first Seven Archbishops of Canterbury here 's a joint Epitaph as it is taken out of Gervasius Dorobernensis Septem sunt Anglis Primates Protopatres Septem Rectores coelo septemque Triones Septem Cisternae Vitae septemque Lucernae Septem sunt Stellae quas haec tenet Area Cellae XX. Upon Stigand Arch-Bishop of Canterbury this bitter Epitaph was made by some of his Enemies Hîc jacet Herodes Herode ferocior hujus Inquinat Infernum Spiritus Ossa Solum XXI A special Favourer of Thomas Becket Arch-bishop of Canterbury who was slain at Christmass in Christ-Church at Canterbury made this Epitaph upon him expressing the Cause Time and Place of his Death Pro Christi sponsâ Christi sub Tempore Christi In Templo Christi verus Amator obit Quinta Dies natalis erat Flos Orbis ab Orbe Carpitur Fructus incipit esse Poli. Quis moritur Praesul Cur Pro Grege Qualiter Ense Quando Natali Quis Locus Ara Dei. XXII Vitalis Abbot of Westminster who died in the Reign of William the Conqueror had this Epitaph Qui Nomen traxit à Vitâ Morte vocante Abbas Vitalis transiit hîcque jacet XXIII One Peter a Religious Man had this Petra capit Petri Cineres Animam Petra Christus Sic sibi divisit utraque Petra Petrum XXIV Upon fair Rosamond King Henry the Second's Concubine one Mr. Daniel made this Hâc jacet in Tumbâ Rosa Mundi non Rosamunda Non redolet sed olet quae redolere solet XXV The next was made upon Jacobus Triulcio a restless Man always in action while he lived Hîc Mortuus Requiescit Semel Qui-Vivus Requievit Nunquam XXVI Upon a Gentleman named None buried at Wimundham who gave nothing to the Religious there this following Epitaph was made Hîc situs est Nullus quia Nullo Nullior iste Et quia Nullus erat de Nullo Nîl tibi Christe XXVII At Geneva there 's an Epitaph in these Words VIXI VT VIVIS MORIERIS VT SVM MORTVVS SIC VITA TRVDITVR XXVIII One without Name had this Inscription on his Grave VIXI PECCAVI PAENITVI NATVRAE CESSI XXIX Which is as Christian