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 World.
Praise , or Dispraise (mad World) all's one to mee:For, bad's the best from them that bedlem bee.
Or, if thou couldst praise iustly, or dispraise;
Neither my minde should either fall or raise
From what it is: which so it selfe conceaues,
That, past it selfe, no place for either leaues:
For, Praises are but Puffes (as all men are)
Dispraises, Snuffes: Then, if we them compare;
They will fall out to be but Ayre or Winde,
That's lesse substantiall farre, then That behinde.
Then, tis no hap at all, to scape a Scape:
And, light's the minde, whereof Winde marres the Shape.
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