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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]

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Epig. 216. Of the Schollers of Oxford and Cambridge.

Oxford and Cambridge, Cambridge and Oxford
Would both of you I might please with a word,
You, in your wombes, good and bad Clarkes do nourish,
And (like kinde Mothers) tenderly do cherrish.

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Though some you breede to amplify your fame,
Yet other some ye nurse, your selues to shame,
So fatally it fares with famous Schooles,
They send foorth famous men, some wise, some fooles.