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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Title: 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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[ 1229] How it is, that the self-conceited vain-glorious man deceives himself.

IT is usually so,* 1.1 that the vain-glorious man looks upon himself through a false glasse,* 1.2 which makes every thing seem fairer and greater then it is; and this fla∣tulous humour filleth the empty bladder of his vast thoughts, with so much wind of pride,* 1.3 that he presumes, that fortune, who hath once been his good Mistresse, should ever be his hand-maid: But let him know, that the wings of self-conceit, wherewith he towreth so high, are but patched and pieced up of borrowed fea∣thers, and those imped too, in the soft wax of uncertain hope, which upon the encounter of every small heat of danger, will melt and fail him at his greatest need:* 1.4 For fortune deals with him, as the eagle with the Tortoise, she carries him the higher, that she may break him the casier. It would be therefore good advice, that in the midst of his prosperity, he would think of the worlds instability, and that fortune is constant in nothing, but inco••stancy.

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* 1.1

Foeli••{que} mant∣b••.

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* 1.2

Quis neget hoe? Ovid.

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* 1.3

Sr. Rob. Dal∣lingtons A∣phorisms.

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* 1.4

Et tantùm con∣stans in levitate s••â est.

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