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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. 284 To my much honored & intirely beloued friend, Sir Basill Brooke, Knight.

Cleere Brooke wherein the Muses bathe themselues,
And Nectar'd, Streames of Helicon do fleete;

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Whose Posey-Bancks delight the fairy-Elues:
Sith all the verdure smells (as Basill) sweete.
To thee (sweet Muse-delighting Basil'd-Brooke)
These Cast all Droppes descend from Loues high Spheare:
But, falling through my Clowdy Braine; they tooke
Some soile vnworthie Thee; which thou wilt cleare:
For, (like a Diamond) though that black thou bee,
Yet being Cleare (as deere) thei'l cleare in Thee.