You say, you love me! that I thus must prove: It that you lie, then I will swear you love. 326. UPON GREEDY. EPIG. An old, old widow Greedy needs would wed, Not for affection to her or her bed; But in regard, 'twas often said, this old Woman would bring him more than could be told. 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. 374. GAIN AND GETTINGS. When others gain much by the present cast, The cobblers' getting time is at the last. 379. UPON DOLL. EPIG. Doll, she so soon began the wanton trade, She ne'er remembers that she was a maid. 380. UPON SKREW. EPIG. Skrew lives by shifts; yet swears by no small oaths For all his shifts he cannot shift his clothes. 381. UPON LINNET. EPIG. Linnet plays rarely on the lute, we know; And sweetly sings, but yet his breath says no. 385. UPON GLASS. EPIG. Glass, out of deep, and out of desp'rate want, Turn'd from a Papist here a Predicant. A vicarage at last Tom Glass got here, Just upon five and thirty pounds a year. Add to that thirty-five but five pounds more, He'll turn a Papist, ranker than before. 398. UPON EELES. EPIG. Eeles winds and turns, and cheats and steals; yet Eeles Driving these sharking trades, is out at heels. 400. UPON RASP. EPIG. Rasp plays at nine-holes; and 'tis known he gets Many a tester by his game and bets: But of his gettings there's but little sign; When one hole wastes more than he gets by nine. 401. UPON CENTER, A SPECTACLE-MAKER WITH A FLAT NOSE.