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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. 263. Against wordy Classus.

If Bladders blowne, with Gold well stuffe we will,
VVe must expell the VVinde that makes them swell:
So, if with VVisedome, we the minde will fill
VVee selfe-conceit from thence must quite expell:
But selfe-conceit so puffes vp Classus Minde,
That he were Vacuum wer't not for that winde.