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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 the truly noble Lord, deseruedly al-be-loued, the Lord North.

Most noble Lord, that truest Worthinesse
Which in thy Nature and thy carriage shines,
Doth presse me novv to make them passe the Presse.
Led thereto by these too-slacke tvvisted Lines.
Thou art a Subiect vvorthy of the Muse
When most she raignes in height of happinesse;
Into vvhose noble Spright the Heauens infuse
All Guifts and Graces gracing Noblenesse.
In few, there are so many Parts in Thee,
(All wholy noble) as thus fixt shall bee
On Fames wings when she past her selfe doth flee.