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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 27. Against Clophus the Time-obseruer.

Clophus his small eies, his large conscience shovves;
His great Head, and large Eares, his little vvit:
Yet is he held the Ferret of Gods foes,
And vvise as Salomon, al Times to fit:
Fits be all times? and Gods foes ferret too?
Then doth he more then Angels well can doe:
Yet Angels, at no time can be more strong,
Sith they can (if they list) do right or wrong.