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. 131. Dies adimit ægritudinem.
This is the hope of those that liue by spoile;The paine they earne (they wot) lasts but a while:
For, being hang'd one halfe houre, as they ought,
The paine is past, or else the Hang-man's nought.
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