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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[ 1376] Wives to be subject to their Husbands.

WHen the Sun is down, the Moon takes upon her the Government of the Heavens, and out-shines the Stars, yet not without borrowing her best light from the Sun; but when the Sun appears she vailes her light, and by degrees vanisheth out of sight:* 1.1 So the Wife in her husbands ab∣sence shines in the Family, tanquam inter ignes Luna minores, like the fair Moon amongst the lesser Stars; but when he comes in, it will be her modesty to contract and withdraw her self,* 1.2 by leaving the Government to him onely; Car∣dinall Wolsey's, Ego et Rex meus, I and my King, is insupportable in the Politiques; so I and my husband is insufferable in the Oeconomicks; For let but the Moon get the upper hand of the Sun, the Wife over her husband, the glory of that Family must needs be eclipsed.

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* 1.1

Horatius.

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* 1.2

R. Burton's Melancholy.

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