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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 myne ingenious, and learnedly gamesome friend Mr Iohn Owen, the short and sweete Epigramatist.

Lend me thine Hand; thine Head I vvould haue said;
(For my Hand's firmer, though thy Head's more staid)
To add some merry Measures vnto myne;
Then shall my Booke be prais'd (at least) forthine.
Thou (in the Tongue that Schollers most approue)
About WITTS Center dost so svveetly moue
Thine Orbes of Arte, that VVitts, which them obserue,
Make them for pleasure and for profit serue:
Plasur'd by Witt, and Profitted by skill;
So, thyne Arts Heau'n, reuolues thy glory still.