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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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[Where nothing is, the King his right doth lose.]

Where nothing is, the King his right doth lose.
But he hath some Subiects that are all, or no Nose:
Then a Nose he quight loseth by the last of those;
As he of the first may (at large) dispose.