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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. 163 To my right deere friend, approued for such, Iohn Panton Esquire.

If not to thee, to whome then should I write,
My stayedst louer, and my fastest friend;
My Bodies right Arme; that Armes hand as right:
Yea, all in all with me vnto the end:
In few; (for with true friends, few words are best)
Thine All, Makes all thy friends as glad as blest.