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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 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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And if thereby I chance to compasse it,
Ile say your loue is tamer then my Witt.