Part 150 (1/2)

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.