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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. 11. Against Sr. Solus his laying out on no returne.

Sir Solus straight will trauell (as they say)
And giues out One for Three, when Home comes hee;
But Three to One he neuer will away
Vntill he hath not One to giue for Three:
For here hee's held by One that him will weare
Till shee hath made him bare not worth an Haire.
Then if he go, hee needs must go alone,
Because to go with him he hath not One.