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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.
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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.
  
Of Mirth.
  
Of the Booke.
  
Againe.
  
Of Poetry.
  
Of Good and Ill.
  
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.
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[To worthy Persons.]

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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.

Though my bad face defaceth my good Friends,
(His vnder mine inter'd; and mine; the Tombe)
Fortune and Art haue done it to these ends
That, as two Hearts, two Heads should haue one Roome.
The buried Face, liues with the Principall;
In Nature, one; in Art, the other is:
Then, his face couerd, my Face (couering) shall
Shew, as a Monument of That and This.
If Time consume mine, as the Monument,
T'will meete with his then, kept from wracke in mine;
And then shall his, mine (ruind) represent,
Eu'n as through mine, of yore, his Face did shine.
In earnest Passe-time so, our Faces shall
Out-face Times Brazen face, out-facing All.
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