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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.

Againe.

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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Againe.

At Stacioners Shops are lyes oft vendible,
Because such Shops oft lye for Gaines vntrue:
But Truth doth lye there oft contemptible;
Vnsold, sith old; but, lyes are often new.
Then should my Booke sell vvell, sith full of lyess
Ah, vvould they vvere: Nay, sure they Leazings bee
In saying such and such do villanies;
When none so nam'd commit such villany.
But, I vse namelesse Names, because their shame
Should light on No-body, that beares the blame.