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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. 192. Against Prusus the Simoniacke.

Prusus , the Parson, vaunts that with cleane hands
He came vnto his cure: and so thinke I:
His hands were cleane from money, goods, or Bands;
For, money not to see's not Simony.
But yet he seeing, that by Coyne the Cure
Must be attaind; he made another giue
Two hundred Angells (vvhich vvere passing pure)
That being Curde, vvith ease he so might liue.
This is a vertue pure, and breeds good blood:
Hovv then there vvith should his hands be defilde?

(Although his hands had vsed it for his good)
No, no, his hands were cleane and they beguild,
That sought to make him Curelesse and impure,
For vsing those cleane Creatures for his Cure.