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. 215. Of a Pen for a running hand.
The Hand and golden-pen Clophonian,Sets on his Signe to shew (O proud poore Soule)
Both where he wonnes, and how the same he wan
From writers faire, though he writ euer foule:
But by that Hand, that Pen so borne hath beene
From Place to Place, that for this last halfe yeare,
It scarce a Sennight at a place is seene,
That hand so plies that Pen, though nere the neere:
For, when men seeke it, els-where it is sent,
Or there shut vp, (as for the plague) for Rent.
Without which stay it neuer still could stand,
Because the Pen is for a running hand.
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