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. 221. Of Clituis.
Clituis (good Heart (to his no little painesAnd no lesse cost, now makes a Dictionary
Of most good Tongues, the worlds wide-mouth containes;
But and inuokes of Ignobility:
Who promise him they will; and so they doo:
That's promise faire: but, when they see him after,
Affraid they fly; and mute in flying too:
Which Clituis smelling, flies them too, with laughter:
Thus flee they either; while the Booke doth marke
His Makers fall so rake him vp to warke.
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