The history of the worthies of England who for parts and learning have been eminent in the several counties : together with an historical narrative of the native commodities and rarities in each county / endeavoured by Thomas Fuller.

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The history of the worthies of England who for parts and learning have been eminent in the several counties : together with an historical narrative of the native commodities and rarities in each county / endeavoured by Thomas Fuller.
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Fuller, Thomas, 1608-1661.
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London :: Printed by J.G.W.L. and W.G. for Thomas Williams ...,
1662.
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Proverbs.

Craig Eriry or Snow don will yield * 1.1 sufficient Pasture for all the Cattell of VVales put together.]

Some will say this cannot be literally true, except the Cattel of VVales be few, be∣neath, and Snow-don-hills fruitful above all belief. The best is, the time is not expressed how long these hills will suffice for their pasture. But let us not be so morose, but to understand the meaning of this expression, importing by help of an Hyperbole, the ex∣traordinary fruitfulness of this place.

Diange ar Gluyd, a boddi ar Gonway.]

That is, to scape Clude and be drown'd in Conway: parallel to the Latine, Incidit in Scyllam qui vult vitare Charibdin.

However, that Pilot is to be pitied, who to shun Scylla doth run on Charibdis, because those rocks were neer and a narrow passage betwixt them; whereas the two Rivers of Clude and Conway are twenty miles a sunder, affording men scope enough to escape them; but little or much in such cases are the same with indiscreet persons.

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