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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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To the most honorable by Vertue, State, and Place, Thomas, Lord Elesmere, Lord Chancellor of England, mine euer-approoued good Lord and Master.

While Loue doth search the Cauernes of my Braine
To finde Wits Treasures to adorne thy Fame,

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I finde (great Master) it doth toile in vaine;
Because the Mine's too empty for the same:
For, if in thee, wee eye what Eyes may see,
It makes the Eye, in what it sees, delight;
But if we looke on That vnseene in thee
(But by Effects) it ioyes the minde and Spright.
Thy Matter is most formall; and thy Forme
Is most materiall in refined worth:
And both to Glory, GRACE doth still conforme;
For, all that heare or see thee, sets thee forth.
Then, though thine owne I be, I may auerr,
No King on Earth hath such a Chancellor.