Ex ungue Leonem: OR, A PROOF (by ten Dozen) OF Sixty one Gross EPIGRAMS Designed for the year 1656.  〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉. 
Printed at London, by JAMES COTTREL. 1654.   

TO THE Gentlemen-READERS.  
HAving digested into six score Centuries a body of Twelve thousand Epigrams, which, for my own recreation, I had, at spare hours, composed, some few years ago; and having put them in a dress so suitable to the various subjects whereon they treat, that much of their perfection consisting in this proportion, it did not lie in the power of my skill to discern betwixt the best and worst of them; because amongst them there was not any, which (according to my opinion) did not, in some peculiar point or other surpass all the rest, supplying what was deficient in any one thing thereof, with a precellency and advantage in another point of the same.  
Yet, knowing that all men are not of a like mind, and that whatsoever pleaseth some, will to others prove very distasteful, I resolved to retard their Publication, until I had communicated my design unto some friends of mine, whom nevertheless, to put (or yet myself) to the labour of reading over all, I thought it unnecessary; seeing by a few, one might as well judge of the remainder, as of the liquor of a whole tun by one spoonful.  
Therefore upon debate, what Epigrams, and how many, should be made use of as touchstones whereby to try he value of the rest, (it being supposed many would think, that to pick them out with deliberation, would in a manner be but to cousin the Reader, (as some Kentish fruit-sellers use to do their customers, in making them pay so baskets of rotten apples the whole rate, as if the ware were sufficient) by means of the cheat of a small scantling of choice fresh Pippins, strewed on the top, which the innocent buyers rejoice to see, thinking all the residue to be of a like goodness with that deluding parcel) it was held very expedient, that, by way of centesimation, taking one only out of every Century, the number should be just a hundred and twenty: and also deemed most agreeable to the ingenuity of a discreet Author, that they should be excerpted by mere chance, as fortune should adjudge, without any formality of proposed selection.  
To this effect, the sixscore Centenaries, in so many distinct bundles, were spread in order on a long table, upon the which was forthwith set down a very handsome and large Timber-Square, made of Box-wood, of half an inch in thickness, wherein was inscribed a Circle of four inches Radius, the whole circumference whereof was divided into an hundred equal parts, cyfred accordingly, and on the centre-speck fitted with a whirling Index of brass, which, being to receive the turning brangle from the hand, some sixscore several times in all, and after the manifold rapid circumvolutions of each, to point, in its closing rest, at some one or other number, from an unite to an hundred inclusively, did, out of those sixscore above-written parcels, direct us to these subsequent Epigrams, one after another, and in the same order, that they are here inserted and digested.  
And though I was of mine own accord engaged, to allow of the value of the remnant, by the standard of what is here set down, I may with confidence avouch, that there are many thousands amongst my other Epigrams, equal to the best of these, and those written on Subjects, which will be infinitely more acceptable to a solid and judicious Reader: nor must it be omitted to express, that the few ensuing Epigrams have not that appearance of acumen, vivacity, grace, or lustre in this Enchiridion, which they were projected to have in the stock whereof they are but the subdecimal portion.  
For being, in the first place, divulsed, rend, and torn from their fellow-members, unto which they were with an apposite symmetry most methodically united, they like fingers and toes cut off from the hands and feet, (though quantified in matter of bulk as before) do not participate of that life, which by the conjunction animates the whole, and every part: and, in the next, by reason of the nature of the Lemmas or superscriptions, adorned with significant proper names, (other than are here specified) which are to be prefixed to these Epigrams, when reduced to their own peculiar stations, they suffer a great diminution of worth, with the more perceptibility of their eclipsed illustration, that, in the contexture of the  Lemmas and Names, there is no less of art, industry, and invention requisite, then for the contrivement of the Epigrams themselves; and much more use in matter of application, as by a thousand several instances is easy to make apparent.  
After this manner, when these ten dozen were pricked down and extracted, it pleased the aforesaid Gentlemen to grace them (after perusal) with their joint approbation; which prompted me, for the better encouragement of Stationers and Printers, in their undertaking for the residue, to allow an Imprimatur to these.  
This course seemed to me the more rational, that Stationers, (who never esteem of the goodness of Books, but by the benefit which thereby accrueth to themselves) having never been much accustomed with Tractates of this nature, and those few, brought to their hands, not proving in every thing answerable to their expectation of gain, which always fuit, est, & erit the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of their Profession) would have startled at the presentment of the immense Volume of a Dodecachiliad, not possible to be made ready for sale, without vast disbursments both for paper and printing: the charge whereof they would have been the more unwilling to undergo, that (the general estimation held of books, being the chief precursor of their emolument) their hopes, in this unusual undertaking, would have in the brood been stifled by the contempt, which this kind of Poetising hath of late most undeservedly fallen into.  
At this undervaluing of what the Muses, in their greatest frolicks, are most delighted in, I oftentimes have very much admired; nor could I conceive any other reason for it, but that the prime Poets of this Land (setting before their eyes the imitation of Virgil, Horace, Ovid, Ariosto, Petrarcha, Bembo, Dubartas, Ronsard, Lopedevega, Guarini, and suchlike, rather than of Martial, and others of his ingenious fraternity) have been pleased to couch their Fancies, (wherein, without flattery, to give them their own due, they have been and are as yet in nothing inferior to any in the best Nations of the world) and to digest them in any other kind of Poetry rather, then that of the Epigrammatical strain.  
But what it might be which moved them so to do, who had abilities for all manner of Poems, is only known unto thimselves: for truly I cannot imagine why, to English Poets, that manner of Versifying should not have been most agreeable, which is most consonant with the propriety of the English Idiom; and that (in my opinion) is the Epigram.  
As for the precellencie, which, in the Heroic vein, the Greek and Latin have above the English, and all our other Vernaculary Languages, is easily understood by those, that are well acquainted with the majestic pace of the Dactyl and Spondae feet, which is of a much more graceful and lofty trip, then can be performed by our lame jambos.  
Another sort of gallant Poesy there is, called the Lyric, wherein are comprehended Sonnets, Madrigals, Hymns, Ballets, Odes, (whether amorous, rural, military, symposiastick, or what you will) Epithalamiums to Nuptials, Epinitions for Victories, Genethliacks on Nativities, Congratulatories, and suchlike copies of Verses, which cannot be expressed by any known Language in the world with more advantage, then in the Italian: the whole words whereof, (some few syncategorematical monosyllables only excepted, and those not above six in all) most smoothly terminating in vowels, and consisting of syllables (by reason of their paucity of consonants) exceeding neatly materiated, do afford a phraseology so admirably fluent, that the very sound more than most sweetly dropping in the ear, bedews (to the inexpressible ravishment of the hearers) the nimble spirits of the brain, with Nectar and Honey deliciosissimament.  
Yet in matter of Elegies, Threnodies, or any long-breathed Poem on luctiferous subjects, the Spanish and French Tongues may come in competition with the best.  
The latitude of Poesy extending yet a great deal further, there is a species thereof called the Dramatic, which includeth Tragedies, Comedies, Interludes, Masks, Entertainments, Dialogues, Satyrs, Frolicks, Georgics, Pastorals, Piscatories, Nauticals, (which last three pass commonly by the name of Eclogues) and other suchlike, in all which to the English I would allow a comparative, but no superlative degree.  
For that, and no less in so far as concerns the English, I would reserve to the only Epigram, even in its utmost extent, as it comprehendeth Epitaphs, Characters, Emblems, Devices, Mottoes, Hieroglyphics, Definitions, Aphorisms, Distributions, Paradoxes, Rebus, Problems; Charientilogetick Quirks, in facetious Encounters; Gnomologetick, in Sentences; Paraemial, in Adages; Ethological, in Moral Precepts; Epistemonical, in Sciences; Technical, in Liberal Arts; Mechanologetick, in Manual Trades; Cabalistick, in Mysterious Speculations; Philistoretick, in Narratives; Palaestrick, in Field-exercises; Umbratilary, in House-games; Paidathyreutick, in Childish Sports; Androgynathletical, in Amourets betwixt man and woman: Polemic Knacks, in the Milice; Politic, in the State; Mythological, in all manner of Fables; Aenigmatick, in Riddles; Arithmologetick, in Numbers; Biographical, in the institution of a man's life; Zoopaedeutick, in observing for our instruction the actions of mere Animals: Rhetorical Whimsies, whether Ironical for Similitudes, or Antipophoretick for Discrepances: Epitatick Hyperboles, in Exuperancie, or Hypocoristick in Extenuation; with all the other Tropes and Figures, not omitting the pathology thereto subservient; ingenious Fallacies in & extra dictionem; Encomiastics, Vituperatories, Scoffs, Sarcasms, Witty Gybes, Jeers, Jests, Tales, Quibbles, Clinches, Quips, Bulls, Anagrams, Chronograms, Logogriphs', Acrostics, Teleuticks, Palindromies, Retrogrades, Antistrophs, Criticisms, Dipnosophisms. Technopaegnions', and, in a word, all manner of succinct and concise Poetry, on what subject soever, purely fancied, and in a acquaint diction apparelled: for if in either of those qualifications it fail, though it may possibly merit the stile of an Epigram, yet will it always be with the addition of a scurvy, paltry, and bad one.  
The Epigram therefore, I again avouch, is that which of all manner of Poetising doth best befit the Systeme of the English Language; because it is that (I mean, the good one) which, of all Poems, requireth the richest and most pregnant conceit, a sublime and piercing acumen in the close, to be sprucely worded, and in few terms; which last clause (to wit, shortness) being in a manner essential to the Epigram, as circularity (or more properly, orbicularity) to the Heavens, makes that kind of Poesy, by reason of the Polymonosyllabicalogies of the English, more convenient and suitable to that Idiom, then to any of the  Languages.  
Truly, as for composing Poetical Treatises upon Didascalary subjects, as did Lucretius; Epistolary, after the manner of Ovid; Historical, like Lucan; or any other such long-winded Tractates upon serious purposes, whatever the subjected matter be, Divine or Humane, it will not, in my opinion (still salva doctioribus reverentia) relish near so well in Verse as Prose; which, set afoot once by a dextrous Writer, cannot be (with any appearance of truth) said to walk on crutches, more than Verses do: for it having answerable to the metrical feet in the learned Tongues, and parity of syllables tipped with semblable terminations (vulgarly called Rhymes) in the vernaculary, another kind of feet, every whit as proportionable, swift, and vigorous; on which being set forward an Isocoly of members, closing in correspondent desinences without Homoiotely; the discoursed or treated-on subject, will, on such lively props, run along the field of the Period, stop, change, turn, fly out again, and, with a most sprightly motion, full of alacrity, by excitating Passion, and persuading Reason, forcibly seize, at last, upon all the both upper and under faculties of the soul, and shut them up as close prisoners in the final close of the expression.  
Hereby as I must acknowledge myself obliged, in the parallel of Prose with Verse, to ascribe the pre-eminence unto Prose, even in the English, as well as in all other Languages: so, on the other part, when one kind of Poem comes in competition with another, and that it shall be asked me, which in the English would prove most graceful, my answer truly will be, for the reason above recited, that what rank soever the Epigram keep in other Tongues, it should above all other Poetry obtain the superiority in the English.  
This in very deed proved no mean motive to me, when my Genius led me in the vein of Poetising to any favourable opportunity, of embracing a diversion with the sacred Choir of Parnassus, to set aside all other manner of Poems, and lay hold on the Epigram: but that which incontroversibly may be called the main cause of that my choice, was my unavoidable want of leisure, to ply the Muses in any long purpose of great deliberation. For although my mind had been never so much bend upon the prosecuting of another strain, and that the English diction had been able to furnish me with advantages beyond any other Speech for such a task: yet for having been always so unfortunately involved, either in public interests, private difficulties, businesses of friends, disturbances of foes, or other suchlike entanglements, oftentimes with an accumulative impetuousness thronging upon me all together at once; that I do not remember, the sun ever shined that day, (since the time elapsed of my subferulary age) wherein I was master of the space of two whole hours, which I might be sure to call mine own, without the urgency of some pressing interruption: I could not, with pretext of reason, or show of understanding the proportion of the measure of motion, to the actions thereupon depending, have adventured to launch forth my little Skiff of Invention, Poetically rigged, into the large and profound Ocean of Polystichetick undertake; or yet spun out, with any deserved praise, the thread of those long-breathed Poems, which secessum & otia quaetunt.  
Thus did the Epigram become my darling-Poemation; because I was never thereby withdrawn from doing any thing else: proving oftentimes the more successful in it, the more I was in aliud agendo occupatus; and the more numerous, the less solitary I was. For very often in a day, wherein I have ridden four and twenty miles, have I composed just so many Epigrams, without hindrance to my partaking of any occurring discourse with my fellow-travellers: and as oft, when a grievous and deplorable accident, one or more (squadrons whereof, in these, calamitous times, have been too frequently obvious to the best of the Land) would obtrusively press in upon me, at any qua data porta of the brain, some curious Epigrammatical subjects would on a sudden be introduced by those emissary spirits, who, from the glandulary fort, seated in the middle of the Epicranidian citadel, were commissionated to fly out, and make excursion upon the disturbers of their intestine tranquillity; to the end that by the additional strength of such faithful and trusty confderates, they might, with the greater ease, keep off their dull and lamentable adversaries, from taking possession of any room, or quarter in the aforesaid multicellulary Garrison: and for the better encouragement of those Epigrammatical Auxiliaries, some of the Trained band, spirits of the soldiery of Terpsichore, would make it their employment to trim and trick them up with a la mode fancies, even to the very Codpiece and Placket, procuring thereby their admission unto a free quarter, through the favour of the Commander in chief, who, to shun deeper inconveniencies, was pleased to give way thereto: for although at first, these light aërial subjects seemed, in regard of those other ponderous objects of a trist & plangorous consideration, to be but as a Zannie, compared to a buskined Actor on the Stage; yet seeing a heavy, doleful, and discontented wretch, seldom obtaineth that reception, which is allowed to a jovial, pleasing guest, little Hilarulo Gringalet for his mirth was often entertained with welcome, when for his morosity, and sullen melancholy, Don Adolentado de Pesadumbre Cuydoso, was for all his gravity very justly rejected.  
I will not deny, but that I found my vein to operate the more easily in these Epigrammatographical Exercitations, that, according to my own fashion, in all other Disciplines and Faculties, (as well as that of Poetry) of preferring Reason to Testimony, and Truth to Plato, and all his disciples, I was so averse from setting before mine eyes the imitation of any, that contrary to the commonly-received custom of terminating every verse with a masculine Rhyme, I chaped my lines now and then with female desinences, and sdrucciolas, which Last the Latinists call Dactyls; it not seeming very reasonable unto me, that because of the multiplicity of monosyllabical and oxytonal words in the English, we should not Rhythmically also make use of the paroxytonals, and proparoxytonals, whereof there is likewise great store: but unnecessarily defrand ourselves of the benefit of many thousands of right important teleuticks, thereby dissenting from the approved practice of all other knowing Nations, and laying of a new divisam ab orbe foundation of our own, as if we were ambitious to bring our Roesie to an elevation Antarctick to the Italians, which is incapable of any other Rhyme, but of a female or Sdrucciola; although the Tuscan Versificators, by these two alone, without the help of the male, brag that they have brought Poesy in that Language to the greatest height it did ever reach unto in any Tongue whatsoever.  
Nevertheless it is my opinion, which notwithstanding I will not obtrude upon the tender credulities of any, otherwise than they shall find good reason for their adherence thereto, that these Italianized Rhymes are with us to be served in with such animadvertencie, and discretion, that to no Heroic Poem in the English they ought to be admitted, nor yet to the Elegy, and, in a word, to no kind of Verses to be set forth, either in a majestic or mourning gravity: albeit the French, even in their Alexandrian Lines, make it one of the precepts of their Poetic art, to interlace the female alternatively with the masculine Rhyme.  
This liberty which I have always been pleased to assume unto myself, of terminating my lines promiscuously with what Rhythmical desinences I thought fitting, did hurry my vein into such a facility of Epigrammatizing, that what number of Epigrams I have composed, is totally unto myself unknown; most part having been imbezeled, plundered, and destroyed, and a great many others dictated from my own mouth, whereof I never had any copy: yet some twelve thousand having providentially escaped the rage of the victorious Enemy, and villainous unworthy hands of the base unmerciful Sequestrator; I make account (Deo favente) out of that gross, to publish, by the first of January 1656. a Body of Three hundred sixty and six several Books, which, consisting each of Four and twenty Epigrams, are, in their wholes and parts, to represent the days and hours of that year, to the number of Eight thousand seven hundred eighty and four: and those so aptly adjusted with Lemmas, and other ornaments thereto requisite, that, out of Greek, Latin, Spanish, and Italian, the four fittest of all known Languages, for proper and Gentile denominations, have been by me extracted near upon Seven thousand names, all of them in the aforesaid Volume, significant of the subject of the Epigram to which they are respectively prefixed and applied.  
I verily believe it will be affirmed by many, that it exceeds the sphere of my ability, to perform what I speak of; and that, in a manner, I do but promise impossibilities.  
Good Gentlemen, how shall I in this case convince these Incredulists? To offer them the usual way of reasoning, is to small purpose: for if they be acquainted with me, they know I have already performed greater tasks, and on harder matters: and if they never saw me, nor heard of me, they being but blind judges of my sufficiency, no man is bound to give any credit to their assertions.  
Therefore by a new way of mine own, to reduce these Nullifidians to some kind of conformity, and confute their irregular Positions with a Syllogistick argumentation, I will make use of this Assumption and Conclusion in Darii:  
I have a mind to keep my head on my shoulders:  
Ergo, I will publish these Three hundred sixty and six Books, by the first of January, 1656.  
Now although the Dictum de omni, out of which this minor (to bring the mood to Darii) is subsumed, be altogether unreasonable; yet if any undertakers will resolvedly undergo the condition of performing the aforesaid task, or losing their life, it will in that case frame an hypothetical Syllogism, reducible to the same mood, no proposition whereof can be denied.  
This engagement will I take, and enter so far into it, That if his Highness the Lord Protector will be pleased to lay a Wager against me of 20000 l. English money, that, on the first of January 1656. I shall not have published these Three hundred sixty and six books, as is aforesaid; I shall be content, for assurance on my part, in matter of their publication, to pawn all I have above the shoulders, as a pledge by me valued at a far higher rate, than the above-written sum, and which I shall subscribe myself well pleased to lose, in case of non-performance: provided violent obstructions be withheld from me, and that I may enjoy my own spirits with so much freedom, as is needful for the accomplishment of such an undertaking.  
If my Lord will not descend so low, as to hearken to this overture, Then my humble desire is, that I may have my liberty granted to me, together with the enjoyment of my own means, and the removal of the Garrison out of my house; and I shall perform it howsoever, upon the pain above specified.  
Now if none of these demands can be obtained, and that it be though expedient, I shall still continue (as I have done these whole three years passed) totally deprived of the possession of any thing (whether of real or personal estate) that is mine, nothing allowed me anywhere in compensation thereof, nor yet for my own subsistence, and nevertheless said open, and exposed without protection, to the rigour and highest severity of the Laws of this Isle, and that at the suit and instance of the most injurious, unconscionable, merciless, and implacable men, that ever the earth produced; I must needs, in that case say, That so much may be said thereto, that I will say nothing.  
Therefore, Gentlemen-Readers, farewel; and wish well to him, who, had he not been debarred from the fruition of his own, would before this time have presented you with that, which you would have deservedly valued at ten times a higher rate, than all the demands he ever till this hour hath made, did amount to, and likewise at this instant subscribed himself otherwise then  
Anonymos.   

Ex ungue Leonem.  

To the Elixir of Beauty, pattern of Goodness, quintessence of Worth, abstrect of all Compleatness, Paragon of her Sex, Masterpiece of Nature, Proto-type of Perfection, and the sublimely acceptable object of Comentment in all the female kind; the most excellent, matchless, incomparable, transcendent, Angelic, divinely accomplished, and never too-much-to-be-praised Aura.  
YOu are the settled subject of my love;  
The love of heaven, & heaven, in whose orbs move  
My choice delights: delight of all my chief  
Aetherial spirits: spirit of my life:  
Life of my soul: and soul of my desires:  
Desire of that acquaintance, which admires  
And worships you: th' acquaintance of the best:  
The best of women; and a woman graced  
With beauty: beauty, which doth far surpass  
What is most glorious on this earthly mass:  
Mass of supreme perfection; and perfection  
Of Art and Nature; thus much my Affection  
Adventures in your praises to disclose,  
By these gradations that you may compose  
Yourself in every action, thought, discourse,  
To be all mine, as I am wholly yours.   

The reason why women should go no longer bareheaded after they be married.  
THe husband is the head, as soon's he unlocks  
The virgin-door of his espoused mate:  
In sign whereof, what first was bare she cloaks,  
And for his low discovery veils her pate.  
Her head she covers, thus to gratify him:  
For he's not head, till she be covered by him.   

The discrepance betwixt Eve, and other women.  
EVe finned first most grievously, and then  
that she was naked it did her displease:  
Though women now lie naked before men,  
that they may sin it out with greater ease:  
Eve in her innocence was naked still;  
But in their nakedness They work most ill.   

Of a certain very jealous man.  
JEalous Gravoso, sleeping with his wife,  
Whose carriage made him weary of his life,  
Dreamed that there did, for curing of his evil,  
Appear a joyful object to them, The devil:  
From whom, he thought, he got a ring so fit  
For his design, that so long 's he with it  
Should his mid finger keep environed,  
He would be sure not to be cuckolded.  
His fancy was so tickled with delight  
At such a gift, that he awaked straight:  
But when he found his said mid finger in  
The orifice of his wife's lower Gin,  
Without Artemidorus art, he knew  
The dream to be in either part most true:  
Both that it was the devil gave him that Ring,  
And that his finger would bar Cuckolding.   

How blind Adraces was served by his wanton wife.  
Blind Adraces chid with his young wife Kate,  
That Candles on the table were not set:  
For he believed it was dark night, although  
The Sun to 's setting had an hour to go.  
You need not care (quoth Kate) for lacking light,  
You cannot well discern 'twixt dark and bright.  
That's true (quoth he) yet is it fit I crave  
That for my house, which all my neighbours have.  
Well then, Sweetheart (quoth she) I hold it best  
You be obeyed. With this, above the wast  
She tucks up all her , and, to the view  
Of those could see, a naked quoniam show:  
Then said, (Sweetheart) are you not now content?  
He, thinking lights were brought as he had meant,  
Said, (Wife) that is fit for a Prince's eye,  
And worthy to be seen, who ere come by.   

How one Dick did cuckold himself.  
DIck being come late from a long journey, did  
Meet with his wife by mere chance in a hid  
And narrow corner of his countryhouse,  
Where he gave her the intercrural douse,  
Without so much as mum, or any word,  
Either before, or whilst he was aboard:  
But when the feat was done, and that his speech,  
Together with the light of candles, which  
Were then brought in, discovered the trick  
Thus done unto her by her husband Dick;  
I vow, had I known it was you, (she said)  
Till we had been a-bed, you should have stayed.   

Of Moll's skll in Grammar.  
MOll in the Common first of two or three  
Began her Grammar; then the love virotum  
Moved her to study night and day, till she  
Had by continual practice declined horum:  
She liketh those declensions for the vowel,  
Wherein the I the Genitive befits,  
And Atticizing it in the number dual,  
The female with the male-kind she unites:  
Or rather, all her Concord's are betwixt  
Two divers geners, where the Masculine  
Is substantively dative, and so fixed  
Within the mobil of a feminine,  
Whose Case is adjectively ablative;  
That if she, by a jovial Interjection,  
Furthered with a Conjunction cop'lative,  
And inward Preposition, such perfection  
Give to her Syntax, that to him that doth  
In the first person court her, she apply  
The second in a kind will make them both  
Active, and passive, participially:  
Then in these her Grammatications, she  
Each part to other will adapt so finely,  
That how frequentative soever he be:  
She'll to his Gerunds bear herself supinely.  
Thus doth she prove superlative, and more  
Than perfect, in both Nouns, and Verbs, and all  
The other parts of Speech, required for  
Cupid's expression, as Grammatical.  
But though there be no woman that surpasseth  
Her skill in Grammar, yet at all occasions,  
Her flexions she so genitively caseth,  
And subjunctively moods her Conjugations;  
That all she knows therein, is but a plain  
Construction of her lust with that of men.   

Of Quintin the Bankrupt.  
QUin how is drowned by his sinister fate:  
What, in salt or fresh waters? no, in debt.   

How one Ben, with his Mistress Pen, practised their skill in Alchemy.  
THey by aspiring both to the perfection  
Of the Elixir, did together enter  
Upon the several subjects of Projection,  
B' a mixture natural and elementar':  
Whilst in material things they co'perated,  
T' incorporate their Sindon by ignition,  
She th'unrefined substance sublimated,  
And crowned the Magistecum b' imbibition;  
Till the whole virtue of the stone being tried,  
They with the touch thereof were satisfied.   

Of not and his wife.  
NOw give me leave (quoth not to's wife) to do it.  
I will (quoth she) my next suit being allowed.  
Content (says he) with this they figed it; then  
Did she wish him to do it over again.   

Of a young Widow, and a pretty Widower.  
A Rich fair Widow, as she wept for her  
Deceased husband; a young Widower  
Told, that her case was (ah!) than his much better;  
For (ah!) h'had killed his wife with his child getter.  
Oh kill me then (quoth she) with that same blade;  
For (oh!) I would be dead, I would be dead.   

Of Meads, and Maids.  
ALl Lasses love green gowns; and seeing that the  
Best grass of any we in Meadows see,  
Therefore is it, that from the word of Meads  
Virgins by men are fitly termed Maids.   

Of Morgan the Fiddler, and his Sweetheart Kate.  
MOrgan made in his progress and retreat,  
Such music with his Kyt-stick on dame Kate,  
That it being like the Pitch-pipe of an Organ,  
Kate was well pleased therewith, & so was Morgan.   

To Procaculo, a suitor to one Doll.  
THough Doll be chaste, despair not; she's a fair one:  
And though you know her well, yet 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉:   

Of a handsome, and well-bred Girl, without a Portion.  
I Put the case she be as straight 's a Plain,  
As white 's the Lily, and as sweet as Honey;  
Yet shall she hardly in this Land obtain  
In birth and worth her equal, without money.  
For to cerdogametick wooers, sucre  
Is but as wormwood, where there is no lucre.   

Of the scolding betwixt Joan and Jug.  
GEt hence, you baggage quean, forth at the door;  
For I must stay here, strumpet, punk and whore,  
(Quoth Jug to Joan) Stay then (Jug) seeing th'adjunct  
Of strumpet, to the styles of whore & punk  
You to yourself reserve, (quoth witty Joan)  
And forthwith with the baggage I'll be gone.   

Of the right of Cuckolds and Cuckold-makers.  
A Cuckold for the most part seems to me  
To have plus juris ad rem quam in re:  
But Cuckold-makers (as I think) may claim  
To have plus juris in re quam ad rem.   

Of one Doll, how she practised her cunning in the Science of Natural Philosophy.  
DOll's matter being informed from the privation  
Of a Virginity, she was the subject,  
Whereon the mysteries of generation  
Were dived into; and having for her object  
A body natural as natural,  
Her knowledge was in th' Acro'maticks such,  
That ' r nature hating vacu'm most of all,  
She loved the anima but for the touch;  
And speculating motion, time, and place,  
Gave proofs sufficient of her skilfulness.   

Why it is a proper sort of speech, to say that a man knows his wife, when he hath carnally to do with her; according to the answer of one Amphibolos, to another that asked him the question.  
AMphibolos made answer t'one demanding  
Why knowledge may be taken in that acceptation?  
It craves in man, a piercing understanding;  
In woman, a capacit ' and conception:  
Knowledge being as it seemeth in our sight,  
But to conceive, and understand aright.   

Of Knox the Sabbatarian.  
KNox makes no conscience of Adultery,  
Of Rapine, Theft, or Petty Larceny;  
Yet hanged his Cat for killing of a Mouse  
Upon the Sabbath-day within his house.   

Of Conditional clauses.  
THe clause conditional of woman is  
That promiseth, So far as in her lies:  
But of that man, that enters into bonds  
With woman is, So far as in him stands.  
For his erection, with her succubation,  
Keeps uninfringed their mutual obligation.   

The words of one Mongo, to a Courtesan of his acquaintance; together with her reply.  

Dem.  
THere being a great that's long, and great that's thick;  
Which of the two love you best in a—?   

Answ.  
The thick one I prefer: for I desire  
A Tompkin rather than a priming Wire.  
Yet if my wish were to be granted, 'Mong,  
I would choose one, that were both thick & long.    

Of Scotus and Aquinas.  
THese stirring spirits of Aquin and Scot  
May be compared to the sun in March,  
Which raiseth humours, but dissolves them not;  
For they for nine a clock at midday search,  
And make to Questions subtle answers, which  
Provoke far rather, then abate the Itch.   

In vindication of a free-strained Epigram.  

Methinks I hear the Reader mutter, (faugh!)  
This is obscene and bawdy, and that a  
Good Epigram cannot be scurrilous,  
Though it should be quick and sententious:  
Yet let him know, seeing I have framed as many  
Of such a kind, as ever yet did any,  
That it could not be suitable to my  
Intended method of Variety,  
Not to be sometimes frolic in my lines;  
For to such strictness who his vein confines,  
And gravely tunes his notes at every minute,  
Sings rather like a Cuckoo then a Linnet:  
Who likewise cannot mix with Lydian Lays  
Cromatick airs, doth merit no more praise  
Than who, a Lady's picture having made,  
Did quite forget to have it shadowed.   

Therefore unto myself I did propose  
Of Epigrams a body to compose,  
Which should not totally consist of eyes,  
Nor ears alone, of heart, brains, tongue, or thighs:  
For that were monstrous; but of these, and all  
Parts fit for Microcosmes Poetical;  
And so have symmetry, and members common  
With the most perfect and accomplished woman,  
Whose beauty will not please (in my account)  
The sweetest lover, if she want a C—.  
Nor is there any in the Universe,  
Will hold that she's complete without an A—    

Of the amorous Kisses which frequently pass betwixt the male and female.  
SHe by receiving kisses from the male,  
Brings his recommendations to the tail:  
This is the cause, I think, why the word lips  
Hath such a full-mouthed Rhyme with that of h—.   

An Apology for lascivious Writing.  
WHy should we bashful be to write in sheets,  
What Law both sexes t'act in sheets permits?  
Unless it were a greater sin t'intrust  
Paper with words, than beds with deeds of lust.  
Nay, where to do a thing deserves no blame,  
To speak thereof we ought not to think shame.   

Of No, and Much.  
THere is scarce any other word that's Spanish  
And English both, but only much, and no:  
For once much hatred and no love did banish  
The one from th' other, as their mortal so:  
Yet would much trust, and no deceit make these  
Two nations fully one another please.   

The words of one, that was both a great Drinker, and a Wencher, in excuse of both.  
IT is not for the love of drink, that I  
Carouse so much; but for the company:  
No more than it is for the Nuptial cranny,  
That I grimbetilolletize my Jany;  
It being her belly, thighs, eyes, arms, mouth, face,  
And other such appurtenances, as  
Accompany the integrants, that do it,  
Which so bewitchingly entice me to it.   

Of Beatrice the widow of one Frederick  
BEt ' too hours after Ferd ' her husband's death,  
Being sued in terms of marriage by one Beth,  
Said, Sir, I cannot yield to your demand;  
For I them already promised beforehand.   

Contraria juxta se posita, clarius clucescunt.  
AS Cloris keeps a coal-black Morish girl,  
That her own beauty may seem like a pearl:  
So Bast to is house doth only fools admit,  
That he may seem to have the greater wit.   

Bridegrooms compared to Mathematical Navigaters.  
bridegroom, like skilful Navigators, hit  
The land, whereof they never saw one bit.   

Of Here-bider the Dutch-man's adventure, with the beautiful Courtesan Flora.  
FLora is called an Angel, yet Here-bider  
Found her not so, when he with is touchstones tried her:  
For if we take an Angel as it is  
A current Coin, esteemed worth half a Piece,  
She is not worth a Groat; she 's course allay,  
And many grains too light, base every way.  
I but (says one) in beauty she's so bright,  
That she is like those Angels called of light:  
Yet truly she 's not so; for, in th'effects  
Of darkness, she most pleasure always takes:  
Therefore if we must needs her Angelize,  
She's like those Angels fell from Paractise;  
A ver' incarnate devil, fiend of perdition:  
For, whom she rempted hath to her fruition,  
And drawn within her sulphurous fiery pit,  
Those she hath peppered for their entering it:  
Within the hell of whose concavity  
(Pandora's box-like) all diseases lie.  
None knows her to b' an Angel by her wings;  
But by the prickning and mischievous stings,  
Which she still keepeth lurking in her tail,  
For the destruction of each silly male  
That comes within her reach, her to embrace.  
Thus Flor ' 's a devil, in a fair angel's dress.   

Of one Trigion, who was in love with a holy sister named Peine.  
WHen Trigion found that he did but in vain,  
For divers months, make love to Mistress Pein,  
Hearing she was a Congregationer,  
He to her godly meetings did repair,  
That, under colour of profound devotion,  
He might the better prosecute the motion  
Of getting his desires; which, in effect,  
Did come to pass, as he did it project:  
For when the lights were out, he in the dark  
Did many nights together on that mark  
He aimed at, give her the touch of three,  
Though all this while she knew not it was he,  
This did embolden him one day to try  
If (as before) she would his suit deny;  
And, the more strongly to persuade her to it,  
Told her where, when, and how oft he did do it.  
You are deceived, (quoth she) I will not (Trigion)  
Do that for lust, which I did for Religion.   

Concerning such, as of late have received the honour, some of Lord, some of Earl, by the names of eminent running waters.  
I Know no reason why, in Scotland, divers  
Have built their dignities upon the brittle  
Unstay'd foundation of impetuous rivers,  
None fearing, that therein he sink his title;  
Unless it be, they aim by such a wile,  
T' have without eloquence a fluent stile.   

The relation of a single Combat, as it was fought betwixt Dan, and his Sweetheart Anne.  
HE alonged about, that she might have the proof  
Of's imbrocat; and gliding swift from thence,  
HE advanced again, and met her contrebuff  
From a low ward: to is strokes she makes defence,  
And paries with her shield: now he re-skips,  
And gives in thrusts: but lest he should escape her,  
She backrisposts them: he enters in her grips:  
She countergriped, and past below his rapier:  
Then struggling in the close, though he was stronger,  
His weapon failing, he could fight no longer.   

Upon one Frank.  
WHen she in name alone was Frank,  
She was a maid, and her womb lank:  
But when she was in nature Frank,  
Her belly swelled up like a bank.   

Of Virro, in Virginity.  

Dem.  
WHy hath the word Virginity, Vir in it;  
seeing maids (as such) ply not t'a viril dint?   

Answ.  
Because the Moon within her hath a man,  
And yet 's a virgin, called the chaste Diane.    

Of the pretty woman Nell, most tightly practising the gesticulatory cricks and whirls of an amoreus ball.  

NEll's feet express in dancing the Love-rites  
(Her tongue being silent) which her heart endites:  
And, with a smiling face, a twinkling eye,  
A nimble body, and lascivious thigh,  
Affords notorious evidence, by this  
Her frolic carriage, what her meaning is.  
She paceth it so softly, that she seems  
Close by the floor to fly with her stretched limbs;  
Or rather, she along the Carpet sails,  
To seize upon the hearts of all the males  
That purposely went thither to behold her:  
The more they be like to yield, she is the bolder  
T' encounter them, where they cannot resist;  
And therefore in those slights doth she insist,  
Whereby they're caught the ground she slightly touches,  
And most bewitchingly makes her approaches.  
Now she retireth, till her dainty foot  
Make all that stands upon it wheel about:  
And other while, she putteth on, to show  
The gallant progress of the passage: now  
She turns, and veers with pleasant gambols; then  
Recoils, sets forward, and comes in again;  
And to the cadence of the Lutes and Viols,  
Displayeth such incomparable trials  
Of her agility, that ne'er was yet  
A woman that more bravely footed it.  
She to the lookers on makes her addresses,  
As if they were to fall in her embraces;  
And the most intim'secrets in the feats  
Of marriage-consummation, counterfeits.  
She trips her motion with the greater licence,  
That she is sure it heats the concupiscence  
Of the spectators: every justful jert  
She lanceth, is a double-forked dart,  
To pierce them to the very soul: each cast  
Of her alluring eyes, hath them possessed  
With so great fervency, that as she glanceth,  
And in delights triumphingly thus pranceth,  
Her sparkling blinks do to their fancy prove  
A Philtre, which empoisons them with Love.  
A while she stops, reflecting on the joys  
She's taken with, in these enchanting toys:  
Then in a trice falls to again, renews  
Her itching wriglings, revels her reviews,  
Fetches her whirls and frisks, and is so quick  
In the performance of each amorous trick,  
That all who see how finely she doth stir,  
Are o'er the ears enamoured of her.   

Yet her activity in membral gesture,  
Adorned by her gorgeousness of vesture,  
And all those Mimic pranks, which she deviseth,  
These amourets, wherein she exerciseth  
Her toe, her heel, her eye, her total frame,  
Are but the ushers of a better game:  
All the pathetic phantoms, ardent charms,  
She makes show of t' enfold within her arms,  
Those antic postures, frigging minardises,  
Those tickling quav'rings wherewith she entices  
The Damerets of th' Aphrodisian Court,  
Are shadows of a more substantial sport,  
Or moving pictures of that solid pleasure,  
Which Nuptial Hymen, in a larger measure,  
Allows a matrimoniated couple,  
To reap by mutual dalliance without scruple.   

But now that she is wearied with the toil  
Of bawling, and that all her spirits boil  
With scorching flames of the blind archers fire,  
Which kindleth no less vehement desire  
In her Inamorato's, hence she goes,  
Having farewelled the company, at whose  
Earnest entreaty she was pleased to come  
Into a fair and well-adjusted room;  
Where though she in appearance seem enclosed,  
Only to have her tired bones reposed;  
One of her Suitors, who, at all adventures,  
Follows upon the tract, gets leave to enter:  
But what they do, the door being shut, and she  
Most glad there's now none more with her, but he;  
Let those be judges, who, in the like passion,  
Have had the leisure of such recreation.    

Of Bess.  
BEss is a whore, because she 's bend ad stupra;  
And a Pick-pooket is, causa qua supra.   

Of Pet, and his wife Kate.  
SO prodigal is Pet, that sooner he  
Will a good wife, than a good husband be:  
And Kate is such, that, I dare pawn my life,  
She'll sooner b'a good husband, then good wife.   

Concerning the Bride Meg, to her Bridegroom.  
HOw Meg shall fall to work she needs not ask ye;  
If other teachers fail, 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.   

Of the wench Frank, concerning her skill in Algebra.  
THough by her Algebra Frank found Aequations,  
And ways to work in rules of dark positions  
Yet, to all Algorsts interrogations,  
She made the root the only supposition:  
By which art, she her pleasures did refine,  
And like to Cossick numbers so bestow them,  
That they went ne'er alone, without some sign  
Of rooted quantity annexed unto them:  
But still most secrets she disclosed, when she  
Tried new conclusions by the Rule of three.   

Of Lasses, and Glasses.  
THough Glasses and Lasses be never so little,  
Yet Lasses and Glasses are ever in danger:  
For Lasses and Glasses are both of them brittle,  
And ready to fall in the hands of a stranger.  
Though falling be common to Lasses and Glasses,  
Yet is there this differ 'twixt Glasses and Lasses,  
That falling breaks Glasses to pieces asunder,  
But pieces bring Lasses to falling at under.   

The Arithmetic of Bess the Courtesan.  
BEss fitteth her acc— unt by ternaries,  
Whereof the prick denominates the value:  
Yet holdeth that her cipher fruitless is,  
Without the right position of his fellow;  
A goodly digit, which, in its due place,  
May therewith frame an article of peace.   

The liberality of one Mr. Rashion.  
TAf from his Master brought a Buck to Rashion,  
Who said, in thinking his pains worth a fee,  
Take here a Groat for your remuneration.  
Sir, keep your Groat; the word contenteth me:  
Which possibly, had it been shorter, you  
Had been well pleased more wages to bestow.   

Of one Jane accustomed to Farthing, whose picture the Limner drew, to represent her face, as it was painted.  
JAne's Picture her resembleth not, though she  
Be as like it as any thing can be.  
What 's natural in her, it doth not hit  
So well as she hath art conform to it.  
She seems in being so artificial,  
To be th' extract, and it th' original:  
Her lively hue it doth not so express,  
As she shows it in colours on her face.  
The Limner thought he portrayed her the better,  
The more his art did counterfeit her nature:  
But she endeavoured, on the other part,  
To force her nature t' imitate his art.  
Her shining tincture she most sprightfully  
Illuminated with a glistering dye;  
And made the lustre of her countenance,  
In th' eyes of the beholders, so to glance,  
That one would think in what they represented,  
That he did only fared, but that she painted.  
Yet in the table, which his pencil drew,  
Her seniblance was s' apparent to our view,  
That I may boldly say, If that there were  
So much of life in it, as art in her,  
It would both speak, and walk, and be in love,  
And her own other self in all things prove.  
But to determine further of their worth,  
They do each others likeness so set forth,  
That, in a word, they be both but images,  
It, of what she was; she, of what it is.   

An Observation upon Caesar, and his Gaulish foes.  
SOme names of Caesar's foes did end in x,  
Such as Ciugetorix, Ambiorix.  
With Dumnorix, and old Veridovix,  
Orgeterix, and Eporedorix,  
With Vircingetorix, and Segonax,  
Which show, that with great prowess, and State-knacks;  
With warlike feats, & Courtlike daubing tricks,  
He was to make himself Anax, and Rex.   

The words of a certain Bridegroom, whilst he was about to consummate the Matrimonial act with his Bride; together with her answer.  

Sp.  
SO much the more beloved of me are you,  
That to my suit you did not yield till now.   

Enc.  
I was so often cheated in it before,  
That I resolved to do so no more.    

The analogy betwixt Apples, Codlins'; Maids, and Women.  
AS a green Apple from a Codlin, so  
Do Maids and Women differ: both of them  
Must needs endure a little boiling, to  
Immerge the former in the others name.  
The open pores of th' apples skin, admit  
To th' inward substance Vulcan's hot impression,  
And Cupid's fire inflameth maids, till it  
Interiorly enact their transformation.  
Maids being made women, that the touch may feast;  
And Apples, Codlins', to delight the taste.   

At a penny the sheet.  
THe fees of Nick the Pimp, and the Clerk Ned,  
Are much alike: for Nick but two pence had  
Last morning for the Courtesans bed-making,  
Which for each sheet was but a penny taking.   

To Philoinos.  
IN all the Rhetoric of Aristotle,  
The Prosopopeie of a Tavern-bottle  
Is of all Figures, that which best likes you,  
When it flows eloquently Glou, glou, glou.   

The words of a certain jovial woman to her jealous husband, in apologizing for Lechery, by the metapher of a Ring.  
THis Ring of mine (Sweetheart) hath been upon  
My finger (as you know) and on your own;  
And yet in every thing without amiss,  
Whate'er it was before, the same it is;  
In measure nor in goodness doth it change:  
Even so, albeit my other Ring should range,  
Upon enclosing more than one or two  
Of suchlike fingers as you use it to,  
You would not find it worse in any thing,  
That's competent to such a kind of Ring.   

That in the whole composure of humane frame, amidst the variety of its most alluring parts, the mouth affords the greatest conveniency for the application of a kiss.  
IF Kisses did not to the taste belong,  
The male and female love inspired youth  
Would do the remnant of the body wrong,  
In Kissing nowhere else but on the mouth.  
Yet of all other, the chief reason is,  
That th' only mouth can interchange a kiss.   

To Jupiter.  
WHen Io was a cow for thee, (Great Jove)  
Why didst thou for the Nymph Europa's love  
Become a Bull, and not for her whose shape  
Had to receive thy coit been more apt?  
Was it because Pasiphae, the Queen  
Of thine own Isle of Crect, was to be in  
The yoke of love with the bull Minotore,  
Without regard of mankind; and therefore  
Thou wouldst have neither sex to Cupid be  
Exempted from irregularity?  
Had Io these two Ladies Cucknelized,  
And the turnbulls eachother rivalized,  
They truly 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 than 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 premises are two Propositions,  
Whose charge is with an argumenting vigour  
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 refined of all the matter;  
Yet in the sequels we such differ find,  
That this, springs from the body; that, the mind.   

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 Courtesans, 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 bawdy songs, in th' Elegiac 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 called The man of sin.   

The Protestant.  
I would t' a Popish girl an inward foil  
Give willingly, and sound ' r dinsredonii,  
Merely to be revenged of that fry,  
Which termeth our Religion Heresy.    

The simplicity of the Girl Joan, in losing her Virginity with one Beedle.  
JOan, being called 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 frolic, loved sport;  
But was so simply young, that in what sort  
She should obey her mother's precepts, she  
Can in no manner descant: for of the  
Word honesty she did not know the sense,  
This being perceived by Beedle, he from thence,  
As soons her mother's back was turned about,  
After some ceremony led her out.  
Unto a private room, where he her told  
That he had learned 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 fly out at,  
Unless it neatly be sowed 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 pricked her to the life most lustily.  
This when he once had done, he asked how she  
Was pleased with his new-fashioned 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 fly out at the chink.  
Sweet Joan, (quoth he) I can do no more now:  
For the whole thread 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 thread?   

Why so many maidenheads are lost.  
THe chiefest reason why most virgins are  
So oft surprised, is because the Sentry  
So near the court de garde is in this war  
Of Cupid, that the enemy gets entry  
Within the citadelle, and brings it in awe,  
Before the sentry can say Qui va la?   

Of Ben, and Goody Glamees.  
THe reason why Ben jummed Goody Glamees,  
Was optimum est condimentum fames.   

How Geometrically the Mathematician Ned did court his sweetheart Meg.  
WHen Ned looked on the lineaments divine  
Of Meg's fair face, he wooed 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 enjoyed in solido.   

The mutual taunts of an English and Spanish Ambassador.  
TH' Ambassadors 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 Idiom.  
The proud Castilian (whilst they both did stand  
On their Puntilios) said in his Romance,  
Let us speak French, seeing we are in the Land  
Of your great Sovereign, the King of France.  
No, (says the Brtish 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 loved, are said to possess the hearts of such as are enamoured of them.  
Lover's so spend now on their Mistresses  
Their cordial spirits, pierced 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.  
'Tis Venus day, who was mongst fishes bred;  
And that on which the man and wife, being set  
In Paradise, would taste no kind 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 sometimes reciprocal, sometimes 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 fly from fol'wing bodies, hatred  
Being loves reward, & love hates compensation:  
These four disdainful lovers were thus fettered  
With circled chains of quite contrary passion.  
But Mark and Moll die each for love of other,  
And both in others arms revive together.   

Of Virginity.  
VIr, in the Latin, yields of man th' expression;  
Gini, in Greek, a woman doth imply;  
Tie, in our Tongue importeth copulation:  
Which three words spell us out Virginity.  
Hence, that no maidenheads are lost, we gather,  
If male and female be not joined together.   

Of that masculine love, which tends to lust.  
MAn's love is drawn from the circumference  
Inscribing th' outward Pentagon of sense,  
Unto that female inward tactil centre,  
Like a diameter, which there doth enter.   

To a certain Gentlewoman, concerning Cupid, and a new born babe of hers.  
BEcause one lovely boy your eyes did enter,  
Another issued at a lower centre:  
The first got access at the sight, and such,  
As made the last find egress from the touch.  
The babe was blind, which stepped in, and took  
His passage at the sense whereby you look:  
But there did sally at the part, whereat  
No optic virtue is, a seeing brat.  
So interlaced are the faculties  
Of View and Feeling, in the exercise,  
Which sets abroach an infant's generation,  
Or labour, which gives children procreation;  
That, by their mixture, you had a full measure,  
First, of the cause, then, the effect of pleasure.   

The Bellman.  
BRave youths, who with your handsome sweetheart's lie,  
Charmed with a tactil sensuality,  
Let each, and all of you observe your mate,  
Both when she lougeth, and when she's :  
For be assured, that in the greater measure  
You ' il please yourselves, the more you mind their pleasure.  
'Tis a fair morning, & but one a clock,  
Give therefore breath unto your hic in hoc:  
For there is nothing stands, but once must fall;  
And so good morrow t' ye, my masters all.   

Of the widow Machlis.  
MAchlis, in her return from th' obsequies  
Of her deceased mate, finding the ways  
To be quite broken in the causeway, which  
She trod on, uttered this ambiguous speech,  
(Even whilst her hand was dangling carelessly  
On her feminian overture) if I  
But have the luck to live another year,  
Many a pretty store shall be laid here:  
And that in honour of my husband, who  
Past several times upon it to and fro.   

That it is a very natural thing in a woman, to lose her maidenhead.  
SEeing Nature, to shun voids in th' Universe,  
Doth mounting floods, & falling air embos'm;  
Why shall a woman from that course b' averse,  
To fill the vac'um of her Microcosm?  
Vacuity with it confusion carries;  
And women should eschew it, lest mankind perish.   

To a lusty strong man named Bently, on the day of his marriage with a young weak stripling Girl.  
I Would not wish you wholly to forbear,  
Because the Bride is young, from colling her:  
Yet this I would desire you, Master Bently,  
If so the ground be tender, rake it gently.   

Of the Lover Eron, and his Sweetheart Phileta.  
ERron, when first the blind brat did him move  
To Venery, abandoning all arts  
For the enjoyment of Phileta's love,  
Became a Sentry at her lower parts;  
Waiting as constantly upon her nates,  
As ever on Aeneas did Achates.   

The reason why wearing of Gowns is peculiar to Scholars and Women.  
TO call him Scholar, that knows much, is common:  
A maid, by knowing man, is made a woman:  
He in the head with knowledge is endowed;  
She in the tail her knowledge hath imbued.  
This is the cause why both wear Gowns, and why  
From head to tail they reach talariately.   

Of one Strigo, a Farmer in Arragon, who for his matchless activity in Love-duels, was sent for by Alfonse the then king of that country.  
THe Yeoman Strigo was in reins so strong,  
That he could foil ten guilts in Venery,  
And please them all. This made Alphonse to long  
For his acquaintance: but unhappily,  
As he was coming towards him, he died.  
The King did notwithstanding ask his son,  
If, like his father, he was fortified  
'Gainst amorous debates, in the backbone?  
I am not (Sir) so like my father, as  
My mother, (quoth he:) but I have a sister  
That is a vigorous and bouncing lass,  
Known to be such, by all that ever kissed her;  
Who though she be therein but a beginner,  
Hath right much of her father's nature in her.   

Of one Amalia, a Poetess of a very amorous disposition.  
AM's best conceptions are (her vein being tactil)  
Infused by Cupid, rather than Apollo:  
Th' enthousiasm proceeding from the dactyl,  
Where after one long measure, two short follow:  
For she expresseth to the life Love's stances,  
When by this foot she scans her couched fancies.   

How hard a thing it is, to judge of the mind by the outward carriage.  
Signs that in nothing differ to the sense,  
Give of the mind no certain evidence:  
For many women make the selfsame face,  
At the bruise of a blistered finger, as  
At the reception of a Paphian cane:  
Yet th' one yields pleasure; and the other, pain.   

Of Dorothy, the wife of John-a-Stiles.  
WHen Dorothy in the nighttime had found  
The Cyprian Nag of honest John-an-Oke,  
Some damage pheasant in her husband's ground,  
She strait laid hold on him, even in her smock,  
And put him legally in her pound ouvert:  
For Dorothy was John-a-Stiles fem covert.   

Of women's precellencie.  
ALl Lovers should their Mistresses, as oft  
As they can on their knees serve with affection,  
Whilst these sweet thing lets, looking still aloft,  
Rejoice upon their backs at man's subjection.  
Hence the she 's Mistress called, as I suppose,  
And he the Servant, who with her doth close.   

Of Tib, and her sweetheart Vere.  
I'Ve lost my blade, (quoth Tib) come search it Vere,  
Some higher, ho; some lower, ho; there, there.   

Of the loving carriage of one Bosens to his wife Mary, after his return from a great Lord.  
AT each of the four times that Bosens had  
Bebumped Mary in her genial bed,  
He telling her that this bout was for Dick,  
That other in remembrance of kind Nick;  
This other yet in memory of Jack,  
And finally, this last for one Ned's sake;  
Which four (he said) were all of my Lord's kindred.  
By me (quoth Moll then) you shall not be hindered  
In this kind, your respects to testify  
To the remainder of his pedigree.  
But finding weariness to seize on Bosens,  
She asked if my Lord had no more cousins.   

Concerning the soldier John Gerthudenberg's Art of Printing; and the finding out of Gunpowder by Bartholdus Swart, a Franciscan Friar.  
FAte so ordained, who knew best how conjunct  
Arts must needs be with Arms, to gain desert;  
That Powder was th' invention of a Monk,  
And from a Soldier came the Printing art:  
Since when, great things, by arts in gowns proposed,  
Have often been by Mars, with guns disposed.   

The expression of one, who did not love to burn for Religion.  
IT Expose myself to death, I have no maw,  
For this or that opinion of the Law.  
Those that court Martyrdom, must have a motion  
Of secret breathing towards that promotion.  
They be fittest to be Martyrs, whom God skills  
With the spruce art of doing Miracles.  
All I can do 's within the bounds of Nature,  
Which makes me think, that, for so high a matter,  
I have no call; and 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 inferior to them all in worth.  
The reason thereof being enquired, she told,  
It was, because she could not tell who should  
Her husband after that time be, as she  
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 employed:  
Merry, with us, expresseth to be glad,  
As Marry to b'in Matrimony tied:  
Which four words signify 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 Bachelor 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 mind, than Nature readily alloweth.  
YOu cannot love a Virgin that is proud,  
Though she be rich; nor indigent, though fair.  
And without beauty, you will 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, though they lack maidenheads;  
As milkmaids, chambermaids, & waiting-maids:  
And some without paternities, are styled  
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 years of age, and little withal, when she saw a tame mouse, tied 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 mouse's skin I had  
A pair of Gloves, sweetheart, I would be glad.   

Enc.  
It is too little for that use, (quoth he.)   

Repl.  
Little and young, will stretch, and wider be.    

Of frolic Ned, and the old housewife Gammer Gow.  

Speech.  
COme let me have a chicken, Gammer 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 father's Colonel, and her own Depucelator, when, after she was married, he would have embraced 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 adultery, and a greater sin;  
Yet of my body now the Garrison  
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 Spy,  
That would betray the fort to th' enemy.   

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 Peter's rock,  
May rear the fabric of his Church: and thus  
That Rome be ruled b' a Shepherd, it is fit,  
Because he was a Shepherd founded it.   

Of Penisecto.  
BY having sailed into the Delphian Creek,  
It cost him th'amputation of his pr—;  
Which makes me think it was a stormy blast,  
That thus enforced him to hue down the mast.   

Of a Tailor, and his Sweetheart.  
THe Gentile Tailor could not choose but please her  
In every fashion, which she most applauded:  
For with his yard he always took her measure,  
Then stitched her seam, and with his needle sowed it:  
Yet though he glanced a little at the rest,  
The chiefest cunning was below the waist.   

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 travelling with a Merchant (whose name was Edward) towards Doncaster.  
FOur youths being riding with the Merchant Ned,  
One of the Gallants asked a Country-blade  
Encountering 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 be 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 Arithmetic 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 will 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 cuffed her backwards.   

On the Merchant Kapees.  
WHilst Kapees kept his shop in th' old Exchange,  
His wife abroad with her sweetheart 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 strait to is apprentice Davis:  
Sic vos non vobis nid'ficatis aves.   

Of Grisel, and her beloved Ephebos.  
GRisel maintained, upon her husband's means,  
Ephebos, whom t' instruct she took the pains,  
In feats of love, wherein he was a novice:  
Sic vos non vobis vell'ra fertis oves.   

Leasure and Solitariness are great impugners of Chastity.  
Lass' entrusted to their own discretion,  
Roaming longest several rooms, and spacious beds,  
Can hardly shun an amorous impression:  
For empty chambers make lascivious maids,  
And serve in thoughts, by which they're so enticed,  
That when a Lover comes, they are surprised.   

Of Jack and Doll.  
WHilst Jack was 'twixt Doll's legs, Sir, marry me,  
Quoth she, and you shall do it, although my mother  
Would not give way thereto. Come, come, says he,  
We must do first one thing before another.  
Then did he put her quickly to the action,  
Without the leisure of one thoughts reflection.   

Of the free-spoken woman Briccona.  
BRiccona being desired to let us know  
The place, wherein she first did undergo  
The touch of man: and whether it was in  
The house, or field, that she received Dondin.  
In neither, (quoth she) for as Love did mount  
To scale my walls, I took it in my C—.   

Of Pet, and his Mistress Kate.  
PEt's preparation was a compliment,  
She, being in his account well qualified:  
Kate 's expectation was an implement,  
He being in her account well quantified.  
Thus all the better nature had endowed her,  
He in her nature all the more imbued her.   

Why the carnal union of man and woman is expressed many times by the name of Venery.  
TH' act, which both sexes hath so oft combined  
In Love's delight, is termed Venery;  
Because the male and female were enjoined,  
On Venus' day, t'increase and multiply:  
That Planet shining; which we now call Venus,  
When God t' obey this precept did ordain us.   

Of Knestiosa.  
LUst is the only cause of all her love,  
And love alone unto her life gives breath:  
That she may live in lust, she lusts to live;  
Without the which, life is to her but death.  
Her signs of life, mere deeds of lust do prove;  
Nor beats her pulse, but by the act of Love.   

The Penance of Licentious writing.  
IF any wanton lines have issued from  
My unaffected Quill, I hold it meet,  
They suffer like adulterers, and come  
Inwraped before the Readers in a sheet:  
That he or she may give the milder sentence,  
To see them in this habit of repentance.   

Of the Puritan woman Ruth.  
RUth is so taken up with faith, that she  
Hath left no room at all for Charity:  
Nor cares she for good works (her faith being ampler)  
But those, which she doth work upon the sampler.   

Of the opposite effects of Printing, and Gunpowder, discovered to the knowledge of the world within seventy nine years of one another.  
PRinting of late hath been found out, to further  
Learning, whereby one boy may work more than  
Ten men could do before, for our instruction:  
And Powder invented was, so apt to murder,  
That one therewith can now kill many'r men,  
Then twenty formerly, for our destruction:  
That, being in knowledge sudden; this, in Choler;  
This, kills a Soldier; that, revives a Scholar.   

How a certain resolute and audacious Wooer was so confident in conversing with his Mistress, of her gracious acceptance of, and yielding to his amorous request, that being les● eloquent, then judicious, he broke off on a sudden, the thread of those compliments, he had not the skill to prosecute; and supplied his lack of discourse with a more pathetically expressive action.  
THe sprightly courter of a gallant Lady,  
Stopping the current of his lovely speeches  
Referred his mind, both time and place being ready,  
T' an orator residing in his Br—;  
And said, Of what I've left yet unexpressed,  
The bearer, Madam, will declare the rest.   

Of one Gametes.  
GAm said t' his wife, that it was not the fashion  
Of men of great account and reputation,  
To do it above once a night, or twice  
At most: and that it have carnal dealing thrice,  
Or oftener, was the custom but of Scullions,  
Hogrubbers', Porters, Colliers, and Slabgullions.  
But sore repent he, that he had not said,  
It was the fashion rather of the Mede,  
Turk, Persian, Muscoviter, Dane, Polonian,  
Hungarian, Tartar, Swede, and Macedonian;  
Who were not to be found so easily  
As Colliers, and the other scondrel fry.   

Of Barnabee, and his wife Santarella.  
BAr coming late to a promiscuous meeting,  
Where the lights out, each brother was a greeting  
His sister with a holy touch; his lot  
Was to kiss his own wife, whom he knew not.  
Then, falling in to be more closely buckeled,  
By his own knocking made himself a cuckold.   

To one Meg, who was modest at the Table, and with her Sweet hearts in the Chamber, lascivious.  
ALthough you make two morsels of a fig,  
Whereby to some you seem extremely meek,  
Yet well I know it is your humour, Meg,  
At no more than one by't to snatch a p—:  
As if your touches stomach could digest  
More substance, than the stomach of your taste.   

Of such as being of a disposition kind enough otherwise, will perhaps take exceptions at the freedom of many of my Verses.  
SOme women scorn to read, or hear a word,  
Whereof the sense may to the mind afford  
(Without a periphrastical expression)  
The plain downright, and literal impression  
Of any thing they call obscene and bawdy:  
As if the eyes, and ears, of all the body,  
Were the sole parts must be exposed to  
Chaste objects. Yet, seeing Use hath made it so,  
Many of my lose Verses will fall under  
The burden of their censure; though I wonder  
By what hypocrisy it is, they can  
Hate lines for that, which they love best in man:  
And therefore do I here conjure them by  
Their thoughts, as being less rigorous, that they  
Geld not my book: for it may furnish wit,  
Will serve t' engender others out of it.   

Of Ralph the Logician, and his Sweetheart Grisel.  
RAlph made, by virtue of his Genitories,  
In spite of Grisel's dialectic Critics,  
An Isagoge to her Categories,  
And Hermenia to her Analytics:  
Keeping the method thus of Aristotle,  
To taste the Nectar of her Paphian bottle.   

Of the two rob Merchants, Dick and Ben.  
AS Dick and Ben were traveling to Belfast,  
They met with robbers, who first bond them fast;  
And having picked their Cloakbags, left them then.  
O I'm undone (quoth Dick:) Be pleased (quoth Ben)  
T'undo me then; for I would fain b' untied.  
Thus of these two it may be certified,  
That each of them was fast bound with strong ropes,  
And both undone, for having lost their hopes.   

Of Hanse and Ned.  
HAnse with an unstretched hand, and the palm down,  
Pretending strength, said he might lay a crown,  
That Ned could not, with all the force he had,  
Fold in his middle and ring-finger. Ned  
(Thinking Hanse spoke it out of bravery)  
Employed his pith, and did those fingers ply.  
Which done, Hanse fore and little one in scorn,  
Did point out Ned the double-forked horn.   

How a certain Lover, and his Mistress, played together on the Virginals.  
THey touched the keys with lovely strokes most quaintly,  
And in their motion s'uniformly dangled,  
That tails did up, whilst heads went down conjointly,  
The found-boord echoing, as the startup brangled;  
Being in their sharps and breaks, so quick and present,  
That never was a harmony more pleasant.   

Of the Amazonian Queen, who made a progress to visit Alexander the Great: and of the Queen of Sheba.  
NIcolia travelled to see Solomon,  
And Minithea the Pollaean King,  
With cross intentions: for the first went on  
To taste of wit, the second of a thing  
More palpable: yet both their aims did find;  
This, in the body; th' other, by the mind.   

Of the Poet Poll, and his Sweetheart Saenura, who likewise had some skill in Versifying.  
WHen Poll met with the Poetess Saenura,  
He timed & rhymed it with a mutual capture,  
Scanning his dactyl still with her caesura,  
To prosecute a Heliconian rapture:  
Whence sprung two streams not paralleled by any  
That ever flowed from the Hippocrene.   

A brisk, handsome, young Sempstress, whose shop was in the Loken-booths at Edinburgh, taking occasion upon a time, about seven a clock at night, in the Winter-season to go thorough St. Giles, thereto adjacent stumbled by chance (whilst she thought there had not been any living creature in the Church but herself) upon a pillar, where there was sitting a proper, young, gallant Cavalier, (who but three hours before had dropped a thousand pounds for his Composition) by which unexpected accident, she (on a sudden) falling in the amorous embraces of that vigorous Gentleman, whose ticklesh blood, by the glimpse which a glimmering light did afford him of her beauty, swelled up his veins so full, with the influence of Love and Lust, that, like a valiant Champion of Venus, (maugre her resistance) prosecuting the assault, he in a trice stormed her for't, entered, and took possession thereof, and therein posed his standing Sentry. She in this surprisal (like those to whom sometimes bold Intruders at first, prove afterwards most acceptable Guests) taking some pleasure, concurred with the Conqueror, whose spirits, jointly with hers, mounting upon the same degrees of mutual delights, furnished subject, in this adventurous Rapture, for the following Epigram.  
A Pretty Lass did ask, whilst she was shaking  
a loose-coat-brangle with an unknown man,  
If formerly he had seen her: I'm but making  
my 'quaintance now (quoth he) as well 's I can.  
By which means he so largely did imbue her,  
That whether he her saw or no, he knew her.   
FINIS.   

Gentlemen Readers,  
IF you love me, and have any fancy to this kind of Poetising, let me entreat you to discuss these subsequent Errata, before you peruse any of the Epigrams, left otherwise the escapes of the Press be accounted faults of mine.  
For although, as there are sins of Commission, there be likewise those of Omission, with the stain of which latter kind, I possibly may be aspersed, for not revising the Proofs, before they were finally locked up in the Forms; yet may the urgent pressures, whereby in the interim I was rob of all leisure, serve to vindicate me of that Imputation.  
It is here to be observed, that the four tetrastics, centonized with the Maronian Sic vos non vobis, are to pass for one Epigram; and that the last Epigram of this Tractate is supernumerary, inserted rather to fill up the page, than the number of the 120 casually excerpted out of the above-specified Centenaries.  
ERRATA. In the Preface, page 7. line 21. for Ironical, read Iconical. p. 10. l. 10. for time elapsed, r. elapsed time. p. 12. l. 25. for the Italians, r. that of the Italians.  
In l. 2. of p. 2. of Epigr. 1. for thus, r. this. In l. 3. of Epigr. 9 for subjects, r. secrets. Ibid. l. 8. for magistecum, r. Magisterum. In l. 2. of Epigr. 19 for acceptation, r. acception. In l. 13. of p. 8. of the third sheet, for adventures, r. adventure.  
In the Lemma of Epigr. 10. of the third sheet, for whirls, r. twirls. In Epig. 3. of the fourth sheet, for ascending, r. descending. In the Lemma of Epig. 7. of the fourth sheet, for dart, r. darts. In the Lemma of Epigr. 29. of the fourth sheet, for Apicrogamos, r. Apeirogamos. In Epigr. 39 of the fourth sheet, for six hundred, r. six thousand.  
The last two lines of Epigr. 7. the last two of Epigr. 18. and the last four of Epigr. 15. of the third sheet, should have been indented.  
FINIS.