Wise men will praise, the clean contrary way:
For whipping them no envy can allay, [p. 82.]
Unlesse it be the clean contrary way.
Then if they went the Peoples tongues to stay,
Doubtless they went the clean contrary way.
[Page 134 [223].] There was a Lady in this Land.
Re-appears in Wit and Drollery, 1682, p. 291 (not in the 1656 and 1661 editions), as “The Jovial Tinker,” but with variations throughout, so numerous as to amount to absolute re-casting, not by any means an improvement: generally the contrary. Here are the second and following verses, of Wit and Drollery version:—
But she writ a letter to him,
And seal’d it with her hand,