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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. 28 Of Grantus his grosse wit and wombe.

Grantus his too grand Panche is neither fit
For Action, nor for contemplation:
His vvombe's too grosse, to haue too fine a vvit,
Sith he is young, and vvith fat ouer-grovvne.

But were he fatt as Bravvne, yet old, and staid,
He might bee wise, and still (like Bacon) feede
On witts Prouision, that his youth puruaid,
Which vs'd in age, makes witt bee wise in Deede.
But Grantus Youth and Belly are so great,
That he would starue if witt were all his meate.