Paroemiologia Anglo-Latina in usum scholarum concinnata. Or proverbs English, and Latine, methodically disposed according to the common-place heads, in Erasmus his adages. Very use-full and delightful for all sorts of men, on all occasions. More especially profitable for scholars for the attaining elegancie, sublimitie, and varietie of the best expressions.

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Paroemiologia Anglo-Latina in usum scholarum concinnata. Or proverbs English, and Latine, methodically disposed according to the common-place heads, in Erasmus his adages. Very use-full and delightful for all sorts of men, on all occasions. More especially profitable for scholars for the attaining elegancie, sublimitie, and varietie of the best expressions.
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Clarke, John, d. 1658.
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London :: Imprinted by Felix Kyngston for Robert Mylbourne, and are to be sold at the signe of the Vncorne [sic] neere Fleet-bridge,
1639.
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Proverbs, English.
Proverbs, Latin.
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"Paroemiologia Anglo-Latina in usum scholarum concinnata. Or proverbs English, and Latine, methodically disposed according to the common-place heads, in Erasmus his adages. Very use-full and delightful for all sorts of men, on all occasions. More especially profitable for scholars for the attaining elegancie, sublimitie, and varietie of the best expressions." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A18943.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 11, 2024.

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Frustrata spes.

He thought he had got God Almighy by he hand but 'twas the Devil by the ow.

You fish faire and catch a frog.

In trust is treason.

All the fat's i'th fire.

He hah lost his longing.

Between two stooles the tayle falls to th' ground.

He that thinks himself surest, may be deceived.

Sell not the Beares skin before you have caught him.

Count your chickens when they be hatcht.

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To leane upon a broken staff.

Page 130

In titulo pharmacum, in pyxide venenum.

Foedum & mansisse diu vacuumque redisse.

Pro thesauro carbones.

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〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, * gr. ar∣cus vi∣ta.

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Bolus ereptus è faucibus.

Murem ostendit pro leo∣ne.

Canis qui duos lepores sequitur, neutrum as∣sequitur.

Canitiemque sibi & lon∣gos promiserat annos.

Quaerens obsonium ve∣stem perdidi.

Ne quaere mollia, ne tibi contingant dura.

Fluvius non semper fert secures.

Semper Agricola in no∣vum annum dives.

Praeverit anchorae ja∣ctum Deus.

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In caducum parietem in∣clinare.

— Vide Spes pertinax.

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