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The Works in Verse and Prose of Sir John Davies (1876)
The Works in Verse and Prose of Sir John Davies - 1876 Author:John Davies Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: NEW POST: Soueraigne salue to cure the Worlds madnes. Expressing himselfe in sundrie ex- cellent Essayes or wittie Discourses. A marke exc... more »eeding necessary for all mens Arrowes. The Great mans Flight, The Gallants Roucr, Whether The Wisemans Prickeshaft, The Poore mans Eutshaft, Or the Fooles Birdboli. £)uantus in Orbe dolus. By Sir /. D. Knight. Printed for lohn Mariot. float. 1llE World, (which is the shop or warehouse of all cuills), was neuer since the beginning vnfurnished of most wicked commodities; and as Time, and mens lusts hath increast the trade, so hath the trade filled vp the empty places, and left no vacuity or vast corner in the world vnstored and filled vp, euen from the bottome to the top, with mymicke and fantasticke imperfections: with sinnes of all shapes, of all fashions, of al inuentions ; sinnes of all proportions and all measures: the great man's creations, the meaner's imitations, the Court's ambition, the citie's surfaito,« less