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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On a worke of Supererogation. Epigram. 231.
THere is a place vpon this middle Earth,
Wher men, that vs'd much fasting, oft did eate:
There, certaine Tearmes of yeares they fed with mirth;
And, honesty the Place did then entreat.
But when an hous-wife, that was Catholik,
Or too too Vniuersall, had set vp
An Ordinary neere, for dull and quicke,
Away went they, with her, to dine; and sup:
T'was Charity to helpe a poore Begynner;
And, for her gayne, in loue, to vse this Sinner.