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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Epig. 75. Of Alphinus the hard-head.
Hornes , Hoofes, and Teeth (as Aristotle holds)Come from one cause, by Nature so assignd:
Heere-hence it is, Hornes those Beasts heads vphold,
Whose vpper Iavves are Toothlesse made by kinde.
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Or els because that Toothlesse is each Chap:
Alphinus Browes beare such horn'd Ornaments,
That he (Hard-head) can hardly weare his cap,
Let graue Philosophers the cause dispute,
His wife, and he; and I were best be mute.
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