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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]

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[It is bad cloth that will take no couler.]

It is bad cloth that will take no couler.
But such a Cloth ne're was scoured by Fuller:
For, if it be cloth some hue must ensue;
Vnlesse it be done; and yet that's an hue.