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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 my truly honest (and so right honorable) Captaine Lawrence Masterson, my good friend.

Laurence , the Grediorne (that erst broild to death
A Saint that bare thy Name) that Iron hot
Got to his sacred fame immortall breath;
Which vvith cold Iron (good Captaine) thou hast gott.
If Souldiers may be Saints, (as some haue bin)
Then to Saints Lavvrence thou art neere of kin.