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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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Of the Printer.

The Printer praies me most vncessantly,
To make some lines to lash at Lechery:
For that (sayth he) so rellish will the rest,
That they will sell, and still be in request:
For most men now (set on a merry Pin)
Laugh to see others plagued for their sin:
Then, Reader, thinke when thou seest such a Straine,
Its for the Lechers paine, and Printers gaine.