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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. 182. Of Cheris his making of Faces.

Cheris , the merry Minstrell, makes men laffe
With 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.