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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]

Davies, John (1565?-1618)

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TO THE MOST Noble Theophilvs Lord WALDEN.

Passages before the Booke.

To the Printer.

Of the Printer.

Of Alchymists and Satyrists.

To the World.

To the Reader.

To the censorious precise.

Of Iesting and Iibing.

Vpon the making of one friends face on the Bord where anothers was made; the first being put out with coulor, for the second thereon to bee painted.

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Vpon English Prouerbs.

[To worthy Persons.]

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Epig. 103. To my much honored, & beloued, Sr. Thomas Lucy Knight.

Bright Sparke of Wit and Courage; yet ynow
To set a worlde of hearts, in loue, on fire;
Whose influence prouokes my Muses Plow
To cast thy Beames abroad that be intire.
Thou all-belou'd and highly prized Iemme.
That in the Courts Browes (like a Diamond,
Or Hesperus in heauen) dost lighten them,
For men to see their way on Glories Ground;
Of thy most honor'd nature, take in gree,
This offer of my Muse to honor thee.