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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]

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Epig. 128. On the death of the worthy Knight Sir William Browne, Knight of the Bathe.

Both Browne, and bright he was, while Earth was his,
Now onely Bright he is in Fame and Blisse.
Wit, Courage, Bounty, (Three that dwell in none
But in bright Fames Superlatiues alone)
In him did hold the glory of their State,
Which thus his Memory perpetuate:
Hee bath'd in streames of Brightnesse being Browne;
And, dying Browne, liues still in bright Renowne.