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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. 111. To mine honorable friend Sr. Richard Tracy Knight.

Sir, you haue match'd with Her that was to me
What ioy could be in any mortall heart:
For her, and for your selfe (sith one you be)
With those I best esteeme, you shall haue part
Of what I best esteeme; that is, such praise
As they deserue, that worthy wiues elect,
Which could not be, were you not many waies
Worthy; for, Likenesse still doth Loue effect:

Then loue her still for Honors sake, and I
Will honor you for that eternally.