In bodies of lesser stature and corpulency commonly there is greater valour and more wit, then those that be h••ger and vaster.
THe Bee being a very little creature, is admirable in her labours, and
Wits common wealth The second part. A treasurie of diuine, morall, and phylosophicall similies, and sentences, generally vsefull. But more particularly published, for the vse of schooles. By F.M. Master of Arts of bot Vniuersities.
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- Wits common wealth The second part. A treasurie of diuine, morall, and phylosophicall similies, and sentences, generally vsefull. But more particularly published, for the vse of schooles. By F.M. Master of Arts of bot Vniuersities.
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- Meres, Francis, 1565-1647.
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wittie in her gouernment: so in little bodies there is often the greatest wit, ••s in little Vlysses there was the wit of Mercurie, but in great Aiax the strength of a Bull. Therefore Palinge∣••iu•• saith very well in his booke called Libra.
Ingenio plerunque caret, qui robore praestat Rarò vtr un{que} Deus largitur, vtidem Sit sapiens, & sitrobusto corpore pol∣lens.
The greater the creature is, the lesse ••ruitfull it is; but litle creatures are very ••umerous in their breeding, as the Lin∣net being a very little Birde doth bring forth twelue yong ones: so they that ••aue lesse in waight, doe recompence ••t by pluralitie in number.
Vnfruitfull trees are stronger and of greater bulke then those that befruit∣full: so their bodies are stronger that ••re vnfruitfull in learning, then theirs that exhaust themselues by painefull ••abours, and consume themselues by ••••cturnall lucubrations.