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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[ 1342] The generality of Men, nothing mind∣full of Death.
THere is a Bird peculiar to Ireland,* 1.1 called, The Cock of the wood, remarkable
for the fine flesh and folly thereof; All the difficulty to kill them, is to find
them out, otherwise a mean marks-man may easily dispatch them: They
fly in woods in flocks, and if one of them be shot, the rest remove not but to the
next bough or tree at the farthest, and there stand staring at the shooter, till the
whole covey be destroyed; yet as Foolish as this bird is, it is wise enough to
be the Emblem of the wisest Man in the point of Mortality; Death sweeps away
one, and one, and one, here one, and there another, and all the rest remain no
whit moved, or minding of it, till at last a whole generation is consumed and
brought to nothing.
Notes
* 1.1
Fynes Mori∣son's Travels. Qu••tidie mo∣rim••r, quotidiè commutamur et tamen aeternos nos esse credi∣mus, Hieron. ad Heli••d••r.