VVits bedlam ----vvhere is had, whipping-cheer, to cure the mad.

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Title
VVits bedlam ----vvhere is had, whipping-cheer, to cure the mad.
Author
Davies, John, 1565?-1618.
Publication
At London :: Printed by G. Eld, and are to be sould by Iames Dauies, at the Red Crosse nere Fleete-streete Conduit,
1617.
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Epigrams, English.
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"VVits bedlam ----vvhere is had, whipping-cheer, to cure the mad." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A19912.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 22, 2024.

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That the men of these new times, are much wiser then those of the old. Epi. 151.

IN old time, men were much less wise than now; For, but with good they then could hinder ill: But now, men (wiser growne) doe well know how To let one Mischiefe with another still.

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Some stones to take, but (frozen) tooke vp none: Then (being Crost) thus Gallus curst alow'd; Pox on't (quoth he) while that dog tare his hose, Where Stones are tyde, and Ban-dogs be so loose.
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