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] |
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Epig. 19. Against bouzing Bossus the woman-queller.
Bossus wil bowse, and bragges he can ore-beare(Or make them deadly drunke) an Hoast of men;
When he is Foxt he plaies the Bull and Beare,
And makes all Men and Women feare him then:
He plaies the Bull with women, or the Horse,
(But none but Mares loue horse-play) and the Beare
He plaies with men, who (like doggs) feele his force,
That, at the Alestake, baite him not with Beere:
Yet one, to ten (like Huncks) be them doth spoile,
But ten, to one hee's but a Beast the while.
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