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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. 21. Against Formias brauery and vncessant prating.

Keep'st thou a Parrat, and a Parrakyt?
Why so good Formia, tell me Formia why?
Is't for thou dost in prating so delight?
Or for they be so gaudy to the eye?
Thou art more gaudy, and prat'st more by farre;
Then spare thy Birds, or Gauds, and prating spare.