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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. 221. Of Clituis.

Clituis (good Heart (to his no little paines
And 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.