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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 truly noble knight, Sr. Allen Percy.

Wert thou where euer humane Creatures were
Though Sauages of most inhumane kinde;
Yet (noble knight) as thou thy selfe dost beare,
Thou vvouldst among them loue and fauour finde;
So faire thy Beds, but more faire thy minde
Appeares t'externall, and internall Sence,
That they the Barbaroust Heartes vvould strongly binde
T'adore thee as some Super-excellence:
So, on (deere Knight) vvith thy so happy Race,
While Heau'n and Earth do thee (in loue) embrace.