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 May 1, 2024.

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Honos indigno habitus.
Honos virtuti debitus.

Honour and ease are sel∣dome bed-fellowes.

Crownes have cares.

Win gold and weare gold.

Doctor Dodipoll is more honoured then a good di∣vine.

Now vertue is not honou∣red.

Desert goes a begging.

For want of a wise man, a foole is set in the chaire.

First come, first served.

A sow in a feather-bed.

Where honour ceaseth there knowledge de∣creaseth.

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No penny no Pater noster.

In courts are cares.

Better be the head of the yeomanrie, than the tayl of the gentrie.

Honour is uncertain.

A kindnesse ill bestowed is an unkindnesse.

From the cart to the court.

A great shooe fits not a little foot.

Give him his due though he be the Devill.

Honos onus.

Ni purges & moles non comedes.

Malus Choraules, bonus symphoniacus.

Corvi lusciniis honora∣tiores.

Bos in quadrá argentea.

Qui primus venerit, pri∣mus molet.

Tragica simia.

Bos in civitate.

Honos alit artes.

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Curia curarum genitrix.

Esto potius cauda leo∣num quam caput vul∣pium.

Strumam dibapho tege∣re.

Honor est bonum sine se∣ra & clave.

Benefacta malè colloca∣ta sunt malè facta.

Induitis me leonis exu∣vium.

Omnem lapidem niti∣dum adorantes.

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