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 good friend Rich: Rauenscroft Esquire.
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The Scourge of Folly | ||
To my good friend Rich: Rauenscroft Esquire.
A Croft I made my Wife, which bare to meA Croppe of Care, and Barne the same to Inne:
But thou art Rauens-croft, and Rauens bee
Spoilers of Crofts, and Cropps that are therin,
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They do but well to spoyle them in the growing:
For better were it they should beare but Tares
Then beare but that that is lesse worth the mowing,
If thou be Rauens-croft then, clens'd is thy Croft
From all that hurtfull is: for, lawes correct
Those that do kill them, sith they beare aloft
That which the Atre below, doth but infect.
Then sith my half's a Croft, as is thy name,
For that I loue, but more for thy good fame.
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