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. 207. Of Flauus his stabbing his laundres to death.
Flauus hath done his Laundres now to death,That oft (before) had done her out of Breath:
But Death, then out of breath, is more amisse.
True: yet he scapes for That: but, hang'd for This.
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