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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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Was it because Pasiphae the Queen Of thine own Isle of Creet was to be in The yoke of love with the bull Minotore Without regard of mankinde and therefore Thou wouldst have neither sex to Cupid be Exempted from irregularity Had Io these two Ladies Cucknelized And the turn-bulls eachother rivalized They truely had done what they ought all three Mean while Europa and Pasiphae Their womanhood had without any scruple Gast off t' enjoy that bullified couple And rather then their inward touch to lose Put on vaccality and turn Io's For men and women both their Reason quit When they in Venus and her son delight Of Love's Didimi and the premises of a Syllogism AS the premisses are two Propositions Whose charge is with an argumenting vigor T' infer a third as strong by their positions Within the limits of some certain figure So do the twins of Cupid hold compactly A substance well elaboured by nature That through the third they may the more exactly Infuse the most refin'd of all the matter Yet in the sequeles we such differ finde That this springs from the body that the minde Of the nature of such licentious women as do datly addict themselves to the practice of Venery TO that part which is most profoundly ractil In Courtizans we fitly may compare The last ca'sur ' of a Pentameter Because it still before it hath a dactyl And therefore Poets did or old rehearse Their baudy songs in th' Elegiack verse Of two Wonchers whereof the one was a Papist the other a Protestant The Papist I Gladly would a Lass hinkinkiate That is a Protestant to vindicate The honour of the Pope who still hath been By that profession call'd The man of sin The Protestant I would t' a Popish girl an inward foyl Give willingly and soundly ' r dinsredonii Meerly to be revenged of that fry Which termeth our Religion Heresie The simplicity of the Girl Joan in losing her Virginity with one Beedle JOan being call'd to the wedding of her brother Was punctually commanded by her mother That in the company of young men she Should have a care to keep hea modesty The girl was very frolick loved sport But was so simply young that in what sort She should obey her mothers precepts she Could in no maner descant for of the Word honesty she did not know the sense This being perceiv'd by Beedle he from thence As soon's her mothers back was turn'd about After some ceremony led her out Unto a private room where he her told That he had learn'd a secret which he would Impart to her whereby she might be very Sure of her honesty and yet be merry For says he mark there is a little rent Betwixt your thighs which will afford a vent For your poor honesty to flie out at Unless it neatly be sow'd up and that I shall perform for here I have a needle Will do the work For God's sake Master Beedle Do that quoth she with this she touching it Together with the roundlets to it knit Fell back immediately to th' end he might Enter in her mid seam his point aright Which he did do with great dexterity And prick'd her to the life most lustily This when he once had done he ask'd how she Was pleas'd with his new-fashion'd taylorie Exceeding well quoth she Well then says he To th' end that you may all this day-long be Assured still your honesty to keep I will bestow upon you yet to deep And strong-drawn stitch which was no sooner said But he of new insuturates the maid When he had thus twice rantred pretty Joan He took his cloak up and would have been gone Stay my dear Beedle yet quoth she and give Me one stitch more for my rent as I live So large is that my honesty I think Without more help will flie out at the chink Sweet Joan quoth he I can do no more now For the whole thred I had is spent I vow What have you done quoth she with the two clues You had just now Have you put all in use If so be I admire how there was need Of so great bottoms for so little threed Why so many maidenheads are lost THe chiefest reason why most virgins are So oft surprised is because the Centry So neer the court de garde is in this war Of Cupid that the enemy gets entry Within the citadelle and brings 't in awe Before the centry can say Qui va la Of Ben and Goodie Glamees THe reason why Ben jummed Goody Glamees Was optimum est condimentum fames How Geometrically the Mathematician Ned did court his sweet-heart Meg. WHen Ned look'd on the lineaments divine Of Meg's fair face he woo'd her in a line From whence ascending to her lips more gay He courted her in superficie And thence proceeding fowards without ho Her body he enjoy'd in solido The mutual taunts of an English and Spanish Ambassadour TH' Ambassadours of England once and Spain Great Linguists both to Paris when they 'd come To treat of State did purposely abstain From talking each in th' others Idiome The proud Castilian whilst they both did stand On their Puntilio's said in his Romance Let us speak French see'ng we are in the Land Of your great Soveraign the King of France No says the Br tish Lord in th' English tongue We in the Hebrew our discourse will frame Lest otherwise your Master I should wrong Who is th' anointed of Jerusalem Which Jeer being to the purpose thus retorted They each with th 'others wit the rafter sported Concerning those who being lov'd are said to possess the hearts of such as are enamoured of them LOvers so spend now on their Mistresses Their cordial spirits pierc'd with Cupia's darts That like to Paphlagonian Partridges Each fair and vert'ous Lady hath two hearts For one cannot possess so great perfection And be the object of no man's affection Why on the Friday we ought to abstain from flesh to Ned. Dem. WHy should we eat no flesh on Friday Ned Answ 'T is Venus day who was mongst fishes bred And that on which the man and wife being set In Paradise would taste no kinde of meat But fruit and herbs a food therefore most fit For us that day and fishes next to it The severally inflicted wounds of Cupid's dart Love being somtimes reciprocal somtimes not BEss loveth James whose humour is so Gotick That for no earthly thing would he possess her And hateth Will whose fancy 's so erotick That he must die if he do not embrace her Alce James despiseth though he her respect Beyond all other pleasures wealth and honour And passionately doth her Will affect Who scorns to do so much as look upon her Like shades which flie from fol'wing bodies hatred Being loves reward love hates compensation These four disdainful lovers were thus fettred With circled chains of quite contrary passion But Mark and Moll die each for love of other And both in others arms revive