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] |
To my right worthily-beloued Sr. Iohn Dauies
Knight. Atturney generall of Ireland.
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The Scourge of Folly | ||
To my right worthily-beloued Sr. Iohn Dauies Knight. Atturney generall of Ireland.
Good Sir, your nature so affects my Name,That both your Name and Nature are mine owne:
And in their loue to both, affect your fame;
Yet hauing not like fortunes, liue vnknowne.
And (Loadstone-like) did not your nature draw
Mine to the Poynt which yours did once proiect,
These hard Rimes to digest (as rude as raw)
No Cause should ere haue brought to this effect.
But yet to imitate our Friends in ill
Is much more ill; and to vnkinde accord
Of Ill you writ too well; and so I will
(If so I can) to make Ill more abhord:
Then if you like these Purgings of my Braine,
Ile nere beleeue that ought it yeelds in vaine.
The Scourge of Folly | ||