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Excerpt from The Complete Works of John Davies of Hereford, 15..-1618, Vol. 2 of 2: For the First Time Collected and Edited, With Memorial-Introduction, Notes and Illustrations, Glossarial Index, and Portrait and Facsimile, &C
On this title-page Mr. J. Payne Collier writes - 'it has been said, that the person represented undergoing ?agellation on the title-page cl' Davies's Scourge of Folly (pnnted about 1610) was meant for [henry] Parrot; but this conjecture seems sufficxently contradicted by the fact that Parrot, in the work before us (epigr. 107, Book I. Laquei Ridiculosi] pays Davies a high compliment for Ills wnt. At all events, therefore, Parrot in 1613 could not have been sensible of the intention of Davies about 1610, and there is nothmg in the engravmg itself to support the statement' (bibhogr. Account, 11. Thls ?agellation picture-caricature is found in long preceding mss. (french). The Scourge of Folly must have been after 1610, as m It is an Epitaph on Sir Thomas Gorges, who died in March 1610; and yet must have been printed before January 1, 1612, the date of Mn. Davies's death - she being celebrated as 'ltvmg.' Hence 1611 may be fixed as the year of publication. - G., 0 0 y}\jx*-a0% at; 3 o.
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