Paske, though his debt be due upon the day
Demands no money by a craving way;
For why, says he, all debts and their arrears
Have
reference
to the shoulders, not the ears.
Robert Herrick
He took her; now the jest in this appears,
So old she was, that none could tell her years.
357. LONG AND LAZY.
That was the proverb. Let my mistress be
Lazy to others, but be long to me.
358. UPON RALPH. EPIG.
Curse not the mice, no grist of thine they eat;
But curse thy children, they consume thy wheat.
361. UPON MEASE. EPIG.
Mease brags of pullets which he eats: but Mease
Ne'er yet set tooth in stump or rump of these.
363. UPON PASKE, A DRAPER.
Paske, though his debt be due upon the day
Demands no money by a craving way;
For why, says he, all debts and their arrears
Have
reference
to the shoulders, not the ears.
368. UPON PRIGG.
Prigg, when he comes to houses, oft doth use,
Rather than fail, to steal from thence old shoes:
Sound or unsound be they, or rent or whole,
Prigg bears away the body and the sole.
369. UPON MOON.
Moon is a usurer, whose gain,
Seldom or never knows a wain,
Only Moon's conscience, we confess,
That ebbs from pity less and less.
372. UPON SHIFT.
Shift now has cast his clothes: got all things new;
Save but his hat, and that he cannot mew.
_Mew_, change feathers.
373. UPON CUTS.
If wounds in clothes Cuts calls his rags, 'tis clear
His linings are the matter running there.
