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 my kinde friend Mr Charles Best.
Charles thou hast law, and thou hast Conscience too;So dost in Conscience, what some others do
That thrine not by it: but, be ruld by me;
Let law and Conscience now so bee in thee
That thou maist liue by lawe, in lawfull wise,
Sith Time now silenceth the too precise:
But if thou wilt be mute, among thy Letters,
Thou shalt be Best, but worse shall be thy Betters.
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