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Recreation for Ingenious Head-peeces [...] of epigrams, 700, epitaphs, 200, fancies, a number, fantasticks, abundance choose

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[UK] Recreation for Ingenious Head-peeces (3rd edn) Epigram No.420: When Codrus catches fleas, what e’r he alles, He kills them with his teeth, not his nails; Saying, that man by man may blameless go, If every one would use Backbiters so.
at backbiter (n.) under back, n.1
[UK] Recreation for Ingenious Head-peeces (3rd) Epigram No. 4: Gripe keeps his coin well, and his heaps are great.
at gripe, n.1
[UK] Recreation for Ingenious Head-peeces (3rd) Epigram No. 421: Oft in the night Salonus is inclin’d, To rise and pisse.
at piss, v.
[UK] Recreation for Ingenious Head-peeces (3rd) Epigram No. 21: M: I’le cut it down, I swear by this same hand. / If ’twill not run, it shal no longer stand. K: Pray Sir bee patient, let your Pump alone, How can it water make when’t hathe the stone.
at pump, n.
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