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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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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.

Be it by kinde or vnkinde accidents,
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.