A GELASTUS that (during all his life)
Ne're laught but once; and that was when he saw
An asse (where thistles grew exceeding rife)
How simpringly he did a thistle gnaw.
O! had he seene a horse tobacco take,
(As once I saw, and seeing laught heart sore)
What mowes and antick mouthes the iade did make,
He would haue laught, he could haue laught no more
A gamesome wagg did that conclusion try;
Who with tobaccos fume did fill his mouth;
And in his horses nostrills, by and by
(From out his nostrills) in aboundance bloweth.
Who snuft it vp as he the same would smell;
But finding it (belike) his smell offend,
He puft it out againe, (exceeding well!)
While from his eies the teares did downe descend;
And made a mouth as he thereat did mewe,
Or els as he were ready prest to spue:
Who cannot laugh at this bidd mirth adue.