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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To the honorable, and my much honord Sr. Iohn Egerton Knight.
To minde you in my wilde light-footed Rimes,Which runne like Roes still scarce themselues they see,
Is but a Trick (vs'd in these wilder Times)
That scarse with Ciuill manners doth agree:
Yet, for my Muse would faine her Cunning proue
To Catch you (as men Hares with Tabers catch)
Shee drawes these lines to compasse in your loue:
For which in game and ernest still I watch:
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Ile say your loue is tamer then my Witt.
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