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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Damnandi.

To give him a privy nip.

The fatall tree.

You'l smart for it.

If you were not my master,

I know what I'de say.

He'scap'd a scouring.

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Not worth the naming.

I'le cast a bone in your dung-cart.

Notorious villaines.

To clip his wings.

Make a difference 'twixt wheat and chaff.

He that gaines hell comes to an ill bargaine.

To spare neither great nor small.

To break a mans head and then give him a playster.

Blood-suckers.

He lives by other losses.

Notare ungui.

Iristis litera.

Contra retiarium ferula.

Ni pater esses.

Calculo mordere.

Aequales calculi.

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Ne nomen quidem.

O praefigere.

Tabellis obsignatis age∣re.

Ex fastis evellendi.

Pennas incidere.

Lolium a tritico repur∣gandum.

Gehennae mancipium.

A calvo ad calvum.

Albo eradere & adscribe∣re.

Spongiae.

Apollo Tortor.

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