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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Malum accersitum aut retortum.

Selfe doe, self have.

You stand in your own light.

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A boystrous horse must have a boystrous bridle.

Desperate cts must have desperate cures.

It is a bad bird that desi∣leth h•••• own nest.

Aswine too fat is cause of h•••• own death.

Out of Gods blessing into th' wame Su.

Every bird must hatch her own egges.

His will is cuse of h•••• h•••• own woe.

He shall have as good as he brings.

He tkes great care how to shame himself.

He that st••••kes with the sword shall be beaten with the scabberd.

He fies his own nest.

Harme watch harme catch

Hot sup ho swallow.

He hath made an halter to b••••ng himself.

The more you stirre it the worse it stinkes.

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Gall a knave and he will greaze you.

Short pleasure long lamen

Touch a gll'd horse o'th back and hee'l kick

You bring an old house on your head.

He hath brought his hogs to a Banbury market.

They that weare black must hang a brush at their back.

He laughes ill that laughes himself to death.

To get a rod for his own breech.

Once an use and ever a cu∣stome.

The same knife cuts both bread and the finger.

Better sit still than rise up and fall.

He hath tyed a knot with his tongue, that he can't untie with all his teeth.

Short pleasure long repent.

Fontibus apros, floribus Austrum.

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Malo nodo malus quae∣rendus cuneus.

Turdus ipse sibi malum cacat.

Qui sibi nequam, cui bo∣nus?

Faecem bibat qui vinum bibit.

Sagittâ quam ipse fecit ipsusmet periit sagit∣tarius.

Pennis suis feriri, grave.

Iliensis tragoedis con∣scripsit.

Soccos quibus ipse indu∣tus est confecit.

Optima nomina non ap∣pellando fint mala.

Messes proprias rit.

Suo sibi hunc jugulo gla∣dio.

Incidit in foveam quam fecit.

Bis interimitur qui suis armis perit.

Suo ipsius laqueo captus est.

Movere Camarinam.

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Scandit fatalis machina muros.

Cornutam bestiam petis.

Suo ipsius indicio sorex periit.

Captantes capimur.

Sibi paret malum qui al∣teri parat.

Chius dominum emit.

Carpathius leporem ac∣cersit.

Mala attrehens ad se ut Caecia nubes.

Qui sentit commodum sentire debet & onus.

Dares Entellum provo∣cat.

Canis saeviens in lapi∣dem.

Colubrum in sinu fovere.

Prudens in flammam mitto manum.

Bellerophontis literas.

Faber compedes quas fecit ipse gestat.

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