The Hesperides & Noble Numbers Part 150

Brown bread Tom Penny eats, and must of right, Because his stock will not hold out for white.

1013. UPON BUGGINS.

Buggins is drunk all night, all day he sleeps; This is the level-coil that Buggins keeps.

1027. UPON BOREMAN. EPIG.

Boreman takes toll, cheats, natters, lies; yet Boreman, For all the devil helps, will be a poor man.

1068. UPON GORGONIUS.

Unto Pastillus rank Gorgonius came To have a tooth twitched out of's native frame; Drawn was his tooth, but stank so, that some say, The barber stopped his nose, and ran away.

1079. UPON GRUBS.

Grubs loves his wife and children, while that they Can live by love, or else grow fat by play; But when they call or cry on Grubs for meat, Instead of bread Grubs gives them stones to eat.

He raves, he rends, and while he thus doth tear, His wife and children fast to death for fear.

1080. UPON DOLL.

No question but Doll's cheeks would soon roast dry, Were they not basted by her either eye.

1081. UPON HOG.

Hog has a place i' the' kitchen, and his share, The flimsy livers and blue gizzards are.

1087. UPON GUT.

Science puffs up, says Gut, when either pease Make him thus swell, or windy cabbages.

1101. UPON SPUR.

Spur jingles now, and swears by no mean oaths, He's double honour'd, since he's got gay clothes: Most like his suit, and all commend the trim; And thus they praise the sumpter, but not him: As to the G.o.ddess, people did confer Wors.h.i.+p, and not to th' a.s.s that carried her.

1108. UPON RUMP.

Rump is a turn-broach, yet he seldom can Steal a swoln sop out of a dripping-pan.

1109. UPON SHOPTER.

Old Widow Shopter, whensoe'er she cries, Lets drip a certain gravy from her eyes.

1110. UPON DEB.

If felt and heard, unseen, thou dost me please; If seen, thou lik'st me, Deb, in none of these.

1112. UPON CROOT.

One silver spoon s.h.i.+nes in the house of Croot; Who cannot buy or steal a second to't.

1114. UPON FLOOD OR A THANKFUL MAN.

Flood, if he has for him and his a bit, He says his fore and after grace for it: If meat he wants, then grace he says to see His hungry belly borne on legs jail-free.

Thus have, or have not, all alike is good To this our poor yet ever patient Flood.

1115. UPON PIMP.

When Pimp's feet sweat, as they do often use, There springs a soap-like lather in his shoes.

1116. UPON LUSK.

In Den's.h.i.+re Kersey Lusk, when he was dead, Would shrouded be and therewith buried.

When his a.s.signs asked him the reason why, He said, because he got his wealth thereby.

1117. FOOLISHNESS.

In's Tusc'lans, Tully doth confess, No plague there's like to foolishness.

1118. UPON RUSH.

Rush saves his shoes in wet and snowy weather; And fears in summer to wear out the leather; This is strong thrift that wary Rush doth use Summer and winter still to save his shoes.

1124. THE HAG.

The staff is now greas'd; And very well pleas'd, She c.o.c.ks out her a.r.s.e at the parting, To an old ram goat That rattles i' th' throat, Half-choked with the stink of her farting.

In a dirty hair-lace She leads on a brace Of black boar-cats to attend her: Who scratch at the moon, And threaten at noon Of night from heaven for to rend her.

A-hunting she goes, A cracked horn she blows, At which the hounds fall a-bounding; While th' moon in her sphere Peeps trembling for fear, And night's afraid of the sounding.

_Lace_, leash.