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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ground, That Superiours live by the sweat of the Inferiours brows, being themselves devoid of care;* 1.3 their quarrell is like that in the Apologue, That out ward members of the body fell out against the stomack, they complained of his l••zinesse, and their own painfulnesse,* 1.4 and therefore conspired to starve him, and ease themselves; they even discovered their folly, for soon after, the hands began to faint, and the leggs to falter, and the whole body to pine: Then, and not till then; they perceived, that the stomack,* 1.5 which they condemned as lazy, laboured for them all, and that they were beholden to the labour of the Stomack, that themselves had any streng••h to labour. So it is in the body Politick, though the State of the Prince or Ruler be supported by the Commons, yet the spring of the Commonwealth is the providence of the Prince; and soon will the Streams dry, if that Fountain be dam'd up.
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* 1.1
Plutarch. in Coriolan.
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Val. Max. lib. 8. cap. 9.
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* 1.3
Menenius A∣grippa.
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B. Lake's Serm. on Esa. chap. 9.
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Non populus co••sa guberna∣toris, sed guber∣nator, &c. Plato apud volat.