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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. 42. Of Crispus and his formall beard.

Cristus doth spend his time, in labour sore,
To bring his Beard in fashion if he could:

Quils, Irons, and Instruments he hath good store,
To fashion it, and make it fashion hold.
But all his other parts he quite neglects:
Of Minde, and Body, (fowly out of frame)
For, sith in's Beard lye all his Soules Affects,
With all the Bodyes glory, grace and fame,
There is great reason he should still controle,
That wayward Part that onely makes the Whole.