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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. 177. Of Gallaes Prodigalitie.

When Galla giues faire words, her goods she giues:
For, other goods she hath not: Then if shee
Giues goods so fast, the poore she much relieues:
She doth (indeed) if the Camelions bee
That liue by aire: for her guifts are no more,
Which she nere giues but to increase her store:
So, to herselfe shee's good, not to the poore.