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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

it Sir says he unto him your Jest is spoiled my Wife is newly brought to bed Well reply'd the other your Wife was never lookt upon to be Impotent XVI Some Ladies speaking of the great Pains they suffered in their Labours For my part said one 't is less Trouble to me than to swallow the Yolk of an Egg. Then sure Madam reply'd one of the Company your Throat vs very narrow DYING MEN AND WOMEN I. THE ancient Romans were so superstitious and so apt to flatter their Emperors as to Deify them after their Decease Which made Vespasian one of their Emperors being at the point of Death express himself in these Words to his Friends about him I find says he that I become a God meaning that he was a dying Which he said probably in derision to the Roman Superstition and Flattery II. A Man condemned to be hanged at Caen in Normandy being come to the Place of Execution protested that he died Innocent and summoned the Judg to appear that Day Twelve-month before God To which the Judg answered I shall be guilty of Default III. Socrates going to suffer Death I am sorry said his Wife to him that you should die Innocent And I replied Socrates should be very sorry to die otherwise IV. Syward the Martial Earl of Northumberland finding himself a dying rose out of his Bed and put on his Armour saying That it became not a valiant Man to to die lying like a Beast and so gave up the Ghost As valiantly both spoken and performed as it was by Vespasian V. N. Heinsius Son of Daniel being upon his Death-bed charged a Friend of his with Compliments from him to the Duke of Montausier Monsieur Bigot and several others VI. A Popish Gentleman being at the point of Death a Confessor was brought unto him And being told what he was come for he lookt upon him and said I neither know you nor you me and so bidding him farewel turned his Face from him VII A Priest having given the Extream Unction to another dying Priest aged 90 Years Your Turn will come Brother said the dying Priest to him Your Turn will come VIII A dying Gentleman advising with another about a Preamble to his Will he told him of one he knew of Where the usual Words In the Name of the Father c. were followed by these I shall soon have done having but little to bequeath IX One dictating his Will to some Lawyers left a great many Legacies more than his Estate could bear and shewed his Disposition to leave Something likewise to the said Lawyers Who having writ hitherto very quietly began now it was their Concern to ask the Testator out of what these Legacies must be paid for upon this say they doth depend the Validity of the Will That I know very well answered the Testator and that 's the Thing which puzzles me most of all X. Another well knowing the Steward's way to make Hay while the Sun shines made this an Article of his Will I leave nothing to my Steward because he has served me Twenty Years XI Impious rather than Witty or Facetious was that Dean's Will in the Reign of Henry III who bequeathed his Estate to the King his Body to the Earth and his Soul to the Devil XII One who had been always Jocose in his Life-time lying upon his Death-bed his chief Clerk came and desired he would leave him a Legacy Upon which he gave him a Key and told him that in such a Drawer he would find that which would make him drink Dying not long after the Young Man greedily opened the Box and found in it but two red Herrings XIII A Person of Quality deeply indebted fell dangerously ill His Confessor being sent for he begged of God in the presence of his Confessor that he would be pleased to prolong his Life until he had paid his Debts The Confessor putting the best Construction upon his Words told him his Principle was so just that he hoped God would hear his Prayer Whereupon the Person of Quality turning to one of his Friends whispered these Words in his Ear Should God grant my Request I should be sure never to die for I would never pay my Debts BVRYINGS I. UPON one's saying that the Heart of King Francis I was bury'd at Rambouillet another said Then he is all there because he was all Heart II. John Duke of Bedford Regent of France was buried in the Cathedral of Rouen in Normandy in a fair plain Monument King Charles VIII of France being advised by one of his Courtiers to deface it as a disgraceful Monument to France he would not hearken unto it but made this generous Return Let him rest in peace says he now he is dead whom we feared while he lived III. A Gentleman having sent his Wife to be buried four or five hours after she was dead one came and told him that she was scarce cold yet No matter says he do as you are bid she is dead enough for me He was in the right she being of a great age when he married her So that it was said of him that to help him to live he had contracted Society with a dead Body IV. Another being buried by his Order without a Coffin in a Capuchin's Habit a Widow that had lost her Husband by his means cried out in the funeral-Procession Murderer thy Disguise will signify nothing God will find thee out for all that V. A poor Country-woman in Poitou fell into such a Lethargy that her Husband and all about her gave her over for dead To bury her they wrapt her up only in a sheet as is usual with poor people in those Parts and so carried her to the Place of Burial But the Bearers passing too near a Thorn-bush she was prick'd alive again out of her Lethargy Fourteen Years after she died in good earnest Her Husband fearing another Resurrection remembred still the Thorn-bush in the way to the Church-yard So that when her Corps came near it he carefully cried out several times Take heed of the Thorn-bush and come not too near the Hedge EPITAPHS I. UPON King HENRY I. Who being dead his Heart and Brains were bury'd in Normandy and his Body in England HENRICI cujus celebrat Vox publica Nomen Hoc pro parte jacent Membra sepulta Loco Quem neque viventem capiebat Terra nec unus Defunctum potuit consepelire Locus In tria partitus sua Jura quibusque resignat Partibus illustrans sic tria Regna tribus Spiritui Coelum Cordi Cerebroque dicata est Neustria quod dederat Anglia Corpus habet II. Another Poet made him this flattering Epitaph Rex HENRICUS obit Deus olim nunc Dolor Orbis Numina flent Numen deperiisse suum Mercurius minor Eloquio vi Mentis Apollo Jupiter Imperio Marsque Vigore gemunt c. III. MAVD the Empress was Daughter to the foresaid King Wife to Henry IV Emperour and Mother to King Henry II.

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