WITS RECREATIONS.

SELECTED

FROM THE FINEST FANCIES

OF

Moderne Muses.

LONDON,

PRINTED BY R. H.

For Humpliry Blunden, at the Castle in Corn-hill.

1640.

AD LECTOREM.

THIS little Booke is like a furnish't feast,
And hath a dish, I hope, to please each guest.
Here thou may'st finde some good and solid fare;
If thou lov'st pleasant junkets, here they are;
Perhaps sharp sawces take thee most; if so,
I have cookt for thee some sharp sawces too;
But if thy squemish stomack can like none,
No body hinders thee; thou may'st be gone.

THE

STATIONER TO THE READER.

* Ir new, or old wit, please the Reader best,
I've hope, each man of wit, wil be our guest;
The new was fram'd to humor some mens taste,
Which if they like not, they may carve the last :
Each dish hath sawce belongs to't, and you will
By your dislike, censure the Authors skill;
Yet if you cannot speake well of it, spare
To utter your dislike, that the like snare
May entrap others; so the Booke may be
Sold, though not lik'd, by a neate fallacie;
That's all I aske, yet 'twill your goodnesse raise
If as I gaine your coyn, he may your praise.