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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Epig. 45. Of Starchus his stout standing to it.
Starchus vvill giue the Stab ere take the lye,The lye is loathsome to his Manhoods Maw:
T'vvill not goe dovvne except a Man beby,
That makes the same digest meate ne're so raw:
Then if he say thou lyest in thy Throte,
He takes it in the Throte-and standeth still:
Because men might his foe for lying note:
For, lye he doth not (though he stands but ill)
That standeth still, when he is said to Lye:
But so he stands, that so the Lye might lye.
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