Perfidiae.
Neither word nor wax can bind him.
As much hold of his word, as of a wet Eele by the tayle.
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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"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 29, 2024.
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Trust him no further than you can see him.
An obligation seal'd with butter.
Where the knot is loose, the string slippeth.
They have neither truth nor honesty in them.
A knight of the post.
Hee may change his baire, but not his heart.
He's not his word's master.
As good trust to a rotten post.
Thraces foedera nesciunt
Superavit dolum Troja∣num.