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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. 9. Against Battus that buyes Books to stay his studies stomack.

Battus doth bragg he hath a world of Books,
His Studies Mawe holds more then well it may;
But seld, or neuer hee vpon them looks;
And yet he lookes vpon them euery day:
He lookes vpon their out-syde, but within
He neuer lookes, nor euer will begin;
Because it cleane against his nature goes
To know Mens secrets: so, he keepes them close.