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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[ 1318] The Good Mans comfort in matter of Worldly losse.
IT was a handsome conceit of a great Duke of Florence,* 1.1 that had for his Arms
a fair spread Tree, having one branch onely lopped off, with this Motto, U••o
avulso non deficit alter; intimating thereby, that as long as the Trunk or body
of the Teee was well rooted, there was no fear, though a branch or two were
withered: Thus a good Man bears up himself in the matter of temporal losse,
As to the matter of Government, if a David be gathered to his Fathers, a Solomon
may succeed him in his Throne. If a Iohn be cast into Prison,* 1.2 rather then the
Pulpit shall stand empty, a greater then Iohn even Christ himself will begin to
preach. What if a Sulpitius die at Rome,* 1.3 a Tully is left behind. What
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though a good King, a good Minister, a good Magistrate be removed, he chears
up himself,* 1.4 that as good may succeed;* 1.5 however he lies down with patience,
expecting the event: If God take away his estate in this World, manet altera
caelo, he looks for a better in Heaven; If he be traduced by Men, he shall be
cleared by God;* 1.6 If he lose his life here, he shall find it hereafter.