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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. 3. Against Valentine the prodigall.

Vitellius had at one feast seru'd to him
Two 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.