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 the noble, vertuous, and honorable Lady, the Lady Elizabeth Berkley, daughter and heire to the late George, Lord Hunsdon.
Most noble Lady, for the deere respectThy Vertue merits; and my darling FRIEND
Doth owe, and would haue paid thee, vvith effect,
Had FATE not crossed what hee did intend:
Or FATE, or HATE or SPIGHT, or rather all
Conspir'd (he weenes) to frustrat that intent;
Which was t'haue honor'd thee with his last Small-
Great-Labour, which to thee inscribd, he sent.
But, Enuie's VERTVES Shade: thy Vertue then
(as much as in her lay) she did obscure:
But on that Cloud in liquid-gold I'le pen
Thy praise that Clowdes nor Earth shall er'e immure.
For This, and home to right thine iniury,
I thus bequeath all to Posterity.
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