Broomsted a lameness got by cold and beer: And to the bath went, to be cured there: His feet were helped, and left his crutch behind; But home returned, as he went forth, half blind. 563. UPON SIBILLA. With paste of almonds, Syb her hands doth scour; Then gives it to the children to devour. In cream she bathes her thighs, more soft than silk; Then to the poor she freely gives the milk. 570. UPON TOOLY. The eggs of pheasants wry-nosed Tooly sells, But ne'er so much as licks the speckled shells: Only, if one prove addled, that he eats With superstition, as the cream of meats. The cock and hen he feeds; but not a bone He ever picked, as yet, of anyone. _Superstition_, reverence. 573. UPON BLANCH. EPIG. I have seen many maidens to have hair, Both for their comely need and some to spare; But Blanch has not so much upon her head As to bind up her chaps when she is dead. 574. UPON UMBER. Umber was painting of a lion fierce, And, working it, by chance from Umber's erse Flew out a crack, so mighty, that the fart, As Umber states, did make his lion start. 579. UPON URLES. Urles had the gout so, that he could not stand; Then from his feet it shifted to his hand: When 'twas in's feet, his charity was small; Now 'tis in's hand, he gives no alms at all. 580. UPON FRANCK. Franck ne'er wore silk she swears; but I reply, She now wears silk to hide her blood-shot eye. 590. UPON A FREE MAID, WITH A FOUL BREATH. You say you'll kiss me, and I thank you for it; But stinking breath, I do as hell abhor it. 591. UPON COONE. EPIG. What is the reason Coone so dully smells? His nose is over-cool'd with icicles. 596. UPON SPALT. Of pushes Spalt has such a knotty race, He needs a tucker for to burl his face. _Pushes_, pimples. _Tucker_, a fuller. _Burl_, to remove knots from cloth. 597. OF HORNE, A COMBMAKER. Horne sells to others teeth; but has not one To grace his own gums, or of box, or bone. 600. UPON A SOUR-BREATH LADY. EPIG. Fie, quoth my lady, what a stink is here? When 'twas her breath that was the carrionere. _Carrionere_, carrion-carrier. 612. UPON COCK. Cock calls his wife his Hen: when Cock goes to't, Cock treads his Hen, but treads her underfoot. 632. UPON BRAN. EPIG. What made that mirth last night? the neighbours say, That Bran the baker did his breech beray: I rather think, though they may speak the worst, 'Twas to his batch, but leaven laid there first. _Beray_, befoul. 633. UPON SNARE, AN USURER. Snare, ten i' th' hundred calls his wife; and why? She brings in much by carnal usury. He by extortion brings in three times more: Say, who's the worst, th' exactor or the whore? 634. UPON GRUDGINGS. Grudgings turns bread to stones, when to the poor He gives an alms, and chides them from his door.