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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. 136. Bis Puerisenes.

Old men are children twice, as doth appeare
By good old Dick, that hangs still at the Dugge:
Yong Girles (he saith) his old-cold flesh doth cheere
And maks the same to looke most smooth, and smugge:

Wilt thou be yong (olde Dicke?,) then, like a Boy,
Thou must be whipt, that dost the Wanton play.