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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. 109. Against Grillus his greedy gluttony.

Grillus before his Soule preferrs his Tooth,
And toothsome fare before Celestiall foode;
Yet common Cates the Epicure doth lothe;
He eats not little, but it must be good,

The Samos Peacocke, and the Malta Crane,
The Phregian Woodcocke, and th' Ambracian Goat,
The dainty Lamprey in Tartesis tane,
The fine fish Assinellus hardly got.:
The Oysters of Tarentum, fish of Helops,
Of Rhodes, and vvhere not? (yeelding dainty cates)
The Goldny of Cilicia, Chior Scallops,
The Nuts of Tasia, and the Aegiptian Dates:
Thus Grillus fares; yet fareth like a Dog,
That eats vp all himselfe, hee's such a Hog.