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 18, 2024.

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Poets gaine is Fame and Famine. Epigram. 274.

THe Poets proper Ensigne is the Swan Sole Bird of Phoebus: so it well may be; For, she doth sing before her death: so, Man (Turn'd Gull) call'd Poet, makes that melody: Because he sings before his death and Fame, So, perisheth, through want, to get a Name!
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