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. 3. Against Valentine the prodigall.
Vitellius had at one feast seru'd to himTwo thousand Fishes, and seau'n thousand Burds,
Heliogabalus (that in Wine did swim)
Three hundred Ostriches once charg'd his Boord;
Maximianus, euery day did eate
Fowre times ten pound of flesh, and of strong Wine
Fiue times ten Gallons dranke he with his meate;
But, these are all but Babes to Valentine;
Who, in short time, with feasting did confound
A thousand pound a yeare of gallant Ground.
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