The Merry-Thought: or the Glass-Window and Bog-House Miscellany. Parts 2, 3 and 4

Part 4:

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Shall lay (on Pain of Flagellation) (From lowest Club, to that call'd Royal,) _close parenthesis missing from both lines_ He'el feed on a Jest, that is broke with your Wind, _spelling unchanged_ By Swine who nee'r provide Bumfodder _spelling unchanged (quoted in editor's introduction)_ E'er I that Suit procure. _text has comma at end_ Professor of Dulness and Bombast. Price 6 _d._ _text reads "Picre"_

Further Notes:

Why are _Doll_'s Teeth so white, and _Susan_'s black? The Reason soon is known. _Doll_ buys her Teeth which she doth lack, But _Susan_ wears her own.

This verse is a translation of Martial V.43:

_Thais habet nigros, niveos Laecania dentes Quae ratio est? Emptos haec habet, illa suos._

_P. S. Quintus_

Pope Sixtus V (= Quintus).