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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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Epi. 272. To my now kinde friend, Mr. Iohn Towne.

Iohn , when we squabbl'd once, thou hewdst me downe.
No maruell, when I fought against a Towne.
I brocht thy Blood, but thou didst sluce out mine;
Mine, the worse lucke, the better hap was thine.
But twenty yeares and more haue seasoned since
With friendships Sweete, the Sowre of that offence:
Yet hadst thou not at that time cut me downe,
I had hang'd in hope (alone) haue woone a Towne.