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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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In praise of a little Mole-like Scab, that like a rude Scab, chanced to take my Fancies Soueraigne by the hand.

So pure's the Fountaine of her pretious Blood,
As if is (through the Veynes that it conuay)

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Meetes ought, that (like her) is not passing good,
It thrusts it out, which in the skin doth stay.
Yet, while it stayes; a Scab, O call it not,
(Sith it is but her deere Blouds cheaper part)
Nay, call it not so much as Mole, or Spot:
But, Beauties Shadow, done by Natures Art.
Or if not so (though so it seemes to Sence)
Call it Perfections BVT; wherein she shootes
Her Angers Shafts, against the Pestelence,
To pull Infection from her by the Rootes:
Or if not so, call it Dianaes STAND,
Wherein shee stood to strike the Deere (her HAND.)