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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. 94. Of Friscus his attachment.

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Friscus so often hath arrested beene,
That now no one can touch him as he goes,
But straight he cries At whose sute? who doth weene
They Serianos are, or those to whome he owes:
But now arrested, at the Poxes sute,
He keepes himselfe close Prisoner, and ú mute,
Well wotting why it him doth prosecute.