Kaina kai palaia Things new and old, or, A store-house of similies, sentences, allegories, apophthegms, adagies, apologues, divine, morall, politicall, &c. : with their severall applications / collected and observed from the writings and sayings of the learned in all ages to this present by John Spencer ...

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Kaina kai palaia Things new and old, or, A store-house of similies, sentences, allegories, apophthegms, adagies, apologues, divine, morall, politicall, &c. : with their severall applications / collected and observed from the writings and sayings of the learned in all ages to this present by John Spencer ...
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1658.
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A bsie-body described. [ 1078]

THe Squirrell (as Naturalists say) is a witty nimble creature,* 1.1 and some write of her, that because she cannot swim well, when she would crosse a brook, she gets a piece of the bark of a Tree, puts it into the water, and her self into it, as in a bat,* 1.2 and then holds up her bushy tail, instead of a sail, that so the wind may drive her over: A busie active creature it is. And thus the pragmaticall bsie-body, hath an ar in every mans bot, an eye on every mans window; is here, and there, and every where, but where he should be; is still busie, but never hath any thanks for his labour.

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