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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Epigram. 1. AGAINST SOSBIVS THE impudent Leacher, defending his sinne, and glorying in the same.
Samocrate , Naso, and Nigidius,Wrate of the remedy of Lust, or Loue;
Which remedy oft cures the lecherous,
As the most loose that way, this way do proue:
These to good purpose writt: But, Sosbius
Hath written so to cure that ytching Sore,
That he makes Vertue most venerious;
And common-Nature makes a common Whore:
For, when Dame Nature workes, it is (saith he)
To honest Endes, hir Meanes, then, honest bee:
But, Sosbius, if that truth bee in thy lore,
Thy mother, to bee honest, was a Whore.
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