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] |
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To our English Orpheus, my deere friend, M. Iohn Allen.
Were I thy Iudge (deere Iacke) for voice and skill)Thou as a mortall Angell shouldst be held:
For; when mine Eares thy heauenly voice doth fill,
My Soule hath much more ioy then she can wield,
Whereof (not being dainty to thy friend)
Thou hast of yore, so lifted vp my Spirit,
That (as in Rapture) she heaun's pleasures kend:
For which, and for thy loue, and other merrit,
Vpon this paper-stone, Ile graue thy Name;
That Times to come may know thee by the same.
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