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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]

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Epig. 78. Of Cæsars loue to Poets.

The Romaine Publius and Laberius,
(Two Poets whome great Cæsar fauored)
Their Skill that Cæsar held most serious,
Though by most Cæsars now disfauoured:
Why should not Poetry please those great Kesars?
It is, becaase those Kesars, are not Cæsars.