page_title: John Davies of Hereford
section_title: Works
hierarchical_section_title: John Davies of Hereford / Works
caption_attribution_description: English: Title page from A Scourge for Paper-Persecutors, or, Papers complaint, compil’d in ruthfull rimes against the paper-spoylers of these times, London: 1625, by John Davies (1565?-1618). STC 6340, Houghton Library, Harvard University
context_page_description: John Davies of Hereford was a writing-master and an Anglo-Welsh poet. He referred to himself as John Davies of Hereford in order to distinguish him from others of the same name, particularly the contemporary poet, Sir John Davies.
  Davies wrote very copiously on theological and philosophical themes. He also wrote many epigrams on his contemporaries which have some historical interest. John Davies died in London.
context_section_description: Mirum in Modum, a Glimpse of God's Glory and the Soul's Shape (1602)
  Microcosmos (1603)
  Wittes Pilgrimage (1605?)
  Bien Venu (1606)
  Humours Heav'n on Earth (1609)
  The Holy Roode (1609)
  The Scourge of Folly (1611)
  The Muse's Sacrifice (1612)
  The Picture of a Happy Man (1612)
  A Select Second Husband for Sir Thomas Overburie's Wife (1616)
  Wit's Bedlam (1617)
  These rare editions were compiled by Reverend Alexander Balloch Grosart (1827–1899) into a two-volume edition privately printed in one hundred copies in 1875 and 1878 at the Edinburgh University Press by Thomas and Archibald Constable as part of the "Chertsey Worthies' library" subscription series. The complete works of John Davies of Hereford (15??-1618) was "for the first time collected and edited: with memorial introduction, notes and illustrations, glossarial index, and portrait and facsimile, &c." Grosart indicated for several of the poems that there was only one extant copy known.
caption: Title page of The Scourge of Folly (1625 edition), depicting Wit scourging Folly mounted on the back of Time.
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