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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[ 1227] The unresolved mans inconstancy.
THe River Novanus in Lombardy,* 1.1 at every Midsummer Solstice, swelleth
and runneth over the banks, but in mid-winter Solstice, is clean and dry:
Such is the nature of men unresolved, to several fortunes; they swell in the Sun∣shine
of their prosperity, and look big in the daies of their advancement; but
when storms of danger and troubles arise,* 1.2 they are dried up with dispair, and hang
down their heads like a bulrush: For a mind unprepared for dysasters, is unfurnished
to sustain it when it commeth; he that soareth too high in the one for••une, sinketh
too low in the other. Insolent braving, and base fear, are individuall and infeparable
companions: But the resolved man is ever the same, even in the period of both for∣tunes.