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.
- Author
- Howell, James, 1594?-1666.
- Publication
- London :: Printed by J.G.,
- 1659.
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- Subject terms
- Proverbs, English.
- Proverbs, Italian.
- Proverbs, French.
- Proverbs, Spanish.
- Proverbs, Portuguese.
- Proverbs, Catalan.
- Proverbs, Galician.
- Proverbs, Welsh.
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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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A44738.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 7, 2024.
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To the Glorious ILE OF GREAT BRITAIN 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉.
REnowned Albion, Nature's choice Delight,
Neptune's chief Care, and Arsenall of Might,
VVhich in thy Watry Orb dost sparkling lye
As Cinthia shines in the Cerulean Sky;
Or as the Tortoise in her circling shell
Dost live secure within thy Rocky Cell
A VVorld within thy self, fit to defend
Thine own, and fit no further to extend,
Yet with thy winged Coursers dost give law
Unto the Ocean, and his Surges awe,
The Baltic waves, and Hyperborean,
The vast Atlantic, Euxin, Indian,
The Adriatic, Tyrrhen, Hellespont,
The White, the Black, the Redd all Seas are wont
To do Thee homage, and rich tributes bring
Unto thy Thames by way of offering,
VVhich makes Civilians hold that thy Sea-bounds
Reach to the shoares of all thy Neighbours round;
To thee, Triumphant ILE, I do addresse
This work of oyl and toyl, be Patronesse
Of thy own Toung, which here 'twixt Columns strong
Throughout a massy fabrick all along
Goes in the van of Europe's noblest Toungs,
Though they want somwhat of Her nerfs and lungs.