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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London :: Printed by W. Wilson and J. Streater, for John Spencer ...,
1658.
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Parents to shew good Examples to their Children. [ 1349]

WEE may read in the Fable,* 1.1 What the Mother-Crab said to the daugh∣ter, Go forward my daughter,* 1.2 go forward; the daughter replyed, Good Mother, do you shew me the way; Whereupon the Mother crawling backward

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and sideling as she was wont, the daughter straight cryed out; Loe Mother, I go just as you do:* 1.3 Let Parents then be sure that their carriage be just and justifiable, especially in the sight of their children, lest instead of being their Correctors, they prove their corruptors; let them never be able to stop their mouths, and twit them in the teeth (when they reprove them) with their own vitious pattern; As if where the Parents were naught themselves, the Children should hold it a kind of sawcinesse to be good, and had rather be bad for company, then their mannerly carriage should seem to teach their betters.

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