Paroimiographia Proverbs, or, Old sayed savves & adages in English (or the Saxon toung), Italian, French, and Spanish, whereunto the British for their great antiquity and weight are added ... / collected by J.H., Esqr.
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- Paroimiographia Proverbs, or, Old sayed savves & adages in English (or the Saxon toung), Italian, French, and Spanish, whereunto the British for their great antiquity and weight are added ... / collected by J.H., Esqr.
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- Howell, James, 1594?-1666.
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- London :: Printed by J.G.,
- 1659.
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- Proverbs, English.
- Proverbs, Italian.
- Proverbs, French.
- Proverbs, Spanish.
- Proverbs, Portuguese.
- Proverbs, Catalan.
- Proverbs, Galician.
- Proverbs, Welsh.
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TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE, And most R. F. in God, BRIAN DUPPA, Lo. Bishop of Salsburie.
My Lord,
THat so many poor Infants after so hard a labour, may receive a Benediction now at the close, specially this last, which (though he comes in the Rear) I esteem mine own more then any of the rest, I make my humble addresse to your Lordshipp; For having called my Thoughts often to Counsell who should give this Blessing, they all con∣cluded ther was none so fitt to do it as your Lordshipp: And indeed ther were many resons for it; First, the Character I have heard applied unto you, which was given of one of the Holiest Fathers of the Church, That you were Coelestis Homo, & Terrestris Angelus, A Heaven∣ly Man, and Terrestriall Angell, being Pious in so intense a Degree; which Exemplary Piety goes attended with a becoming Reverentiall gravity, with such a meekness of spirit, and so many high Morall Vertues, together with a rare Equanimity in possessing your soul with so much patience and courage, by making your crosses stoop unto you after so long a time of pressure. Lastly, your most Exquisite Learning, and Vniversality of Knowledge, attended with such a soundnesse of Iudgement, and clearnesse of Vnderstanding; The pleasing Contemplation, and experimentall Knowledge of all these Particulars, induced me to this just Application of desi••ing your Blessing accordingly.
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Touching the Ingredients of this last Peece, they cannot yet be called Proverbs, for as Rome was not built in a day, so a Pro∣verb is not suddenly made, but it requires a long Tract of Time, and vulgarity of usage before it becomes a Proverb, it is the Common-people alone that have priviledge of making Proverbs.
To conclude, I thought it not amisse to apprehend this Oportunity, to make the world know the high Reverence I bear to your Lord∣ship, and the sense I have of sundry Noble Civilities I received from time to time; as also of the favourable Opinion you please to have of divers Things of mine; which makes me in a due Reverenciall posture, thus to crave your Benediction, and to professe my self upon this publick Record,
Calendis Maij, 1659.
My Lord,
Your obedient, and ever obliged Servant, JAM. HOWELL.