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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Originis.
An ill master makes bad schollers
He prooves better then his Father.
Litle brookes make great rivers.
Bred on hard Commons.
Heavy weights hang on small wiers.
An ill egge of an ill Hen.
Piscis primùm à capite foetet.
E tardigradis asinis e∣quus prodit.
Ab hoc malo est quicquid uspiam est mali.
E quercubus ac saxis nat••.
E squilla nō nascitur rosa.
Exiguum malum, ingens bonum.
Bonae leges ex malis mo∣ribus procreantur.
Ex minimis initiis maxi∣ma.
Mali corvi malum ovum.
Magnorum fluminū na∣vigabiles pontes.
Taurus draconem genuit, & Taurum draco.
Pumilio licèt in monte non est magnus.
Generatio ••nius est cor∣ruptio alterius.
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