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Democritus, or Doctor Merry-man his Medicines

against Melancholy humors. Written by S. R. [i.e. by Samuel Rowlands]

Rowlands, Samuel (1570?-1630?)

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Honest Gentle-men.

Flatteries Favvne.

[Hyppocrisie was kind, and vs'd me well]

[A cittizen for recreation sake]

[A Mony-monger choyse of sureties had]

[A wealthy Misers Sonne, vpon the way]

[Enuy betwixt two friends, a breach did make]

[A country fellow had a dreame]

[An idle fellow that would take no paine]

[A crafty kind of knauish foole]

[A sort of Clownes for losse which they sustayn'd]

[One dying, left three sonnes]

[An old stale Widdower, quite past the best]

[A gentleman, a curious building fram'd]

[A Barber and a Mower did contend]

[An humorons phantasticke Asse]

A Quack-saluers Humour.

[One came to court a Wench which was presize]

[A crew of Foxes all on theeuing set]

[A shepheard that a carefull eye did keepe]

[The Deuill did complaine he was not well]

[A byshop met two Priests vpon the way]

[One clymbing of a tree, by hap]

[An aged Gentleman, sore sicke did lye]

[A simple Clowne in Flanders]

A Courtezans Humour.

[A rich man and a poore did both appeare]

[Two Beggers did encounter on the way]

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[A wealthy Misers Sonne, vpon the way]

A wealthy Misers Sonne, vpon the way
Met a poore youth, that did entreat and pray
Something of charity in his distresse,
Help sir (quoth he) one that is fatherlesse:
Sirrah (sayde he) away: be gone with speede,
Ile help none such; thou art a Knaue indeed.
Dost thou complayne because thou want'st a father,
Were it my case I would reioyce the rather,
For if thy Fathers death, cause the repine,
I would my Father had excused thine.