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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. 183.

[A threed-bare Priest that almost naked was]

A threed-bare Priest that almost naked was,
Comming on businesse to a fox-fur'd Deane;
Who said, in scorne, to him poore Preist (alas)
To go so cold I muse what thou dost meane?
The Priest replide, did you but as I do,
I nothing doubt but you would sweate with heate:
The well-furrd Deane gaue great regard thereto,
And praid the Priest forth-with to shew that feate:
D'on all your clothes (quoth he) which, if you would,
I will be hang'd if ere you be a cold.