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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.
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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.
  
Of Mirth.
  
Of the Booke.
  
Againe.
  
Of Poetry.
  
Of Good and Ill.
  
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.
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[To worthy Persons.]

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Of Alchymists and Satyrists.

As conterfet coyning is put vpon Alchimists,
So Libelling lightly is set vpon Satyrists:
But as the one makes Lead, Siluer at least:
So, the other would make a Man of a Beast.
By heat of strange Fires,
They seeke their desires.
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