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. 99. Against Fortune-tellers.
To be a wise-man (as some fooles them call)To wit, to tell by wit, Euents future,
Is for one Truth to be beleeu'd in all
Their grose vntruthes, their practise hath such pow'r,
And yet let others lye, and lye but once,
That onely lye their credits so may cracke,
That though they after Gospell speak, perchance,
Their Gospells true, may true beleeuers lacke:
Then, wouldst thou lye, beleeud with admiration?
Then, be a wise-man by thine occupation.
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