The Scourge of Folly Consisting of satyricall Epigrams, And others in honour of many noble Persons and worthy friends, together, with a pleasant (though discordant) Descant upon most English Proverbs and others [by John Davies] |
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Epig. 98. Against Congius his Wit-stealing.
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(The Age of Man almost) an aged worke;
For, most of it olde Authors him did lend,
Yet he, more fraudfull then a Iew or Turke,
These honest men would of their due out-face;
And sweares he borrowed none: It's true he stale it:
For, men may tracke him plaine from place to place,
And see him, like a Theefe, where he let fall it.
Yet Brasen-fac'd, blinde Bayard he doth cracke,
He it deuisd, as fast as pen could vvend
At idle times, for recreations sake;
And, in a yeare did it begin and end.
It's true indeed, a yeare and some od daies,
Mounting to some sixe hundred months and more,
He it compilde (be it spoken to his praise)
But then, I must confesse, he laboured sore:
For, Night and day he toyld till it was done:
And filcht as fast as ere his pen could runne.
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