Humour, Wit, & Satire of the Seventeenth Century

by Unknown

Bermudas, Providentia, Shallowcongo,

And the most part of all the rest (Mundungo[¹⁸⁷]).

That Patent, with a whiffe is spent and broke,

And all our hopes (in fumo) turn'd to smoake.

Thou framdst the Butter Patent in thy braines,

(A Rope and Butter take thee for thy paines.)

I had forgot Tobacco Pipes, which are

Now like to thou and I, but brittle ware.

Dice run against us, we at Cards are crost,

We both are turn'd up Noddies,[¹⁸⁸] and all's lost.