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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Epig. 182. Of Cheris his making of Faces.
Cheris , the merry Minstrell, makes men laffeWith many faces which he (singing) makes:
What though at him his hearers scoff or chafe,
Because he looks as he were on Aiax:
Yet Cheris face from shame he still doth fence
With shamelesse ignorance, and impudence:
And so seeing coyne (by facing) comes in Game,
Great men in Ernest often do the same.
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