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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All Men alike in Death. [ 1418]

LUcian hath a Fable,* 1.1 the Moral is good; Menippus meeting with Mercury in the Elizian-fields, would needs know of him, which amongst all th•• ghosts was Philip the great King of Macedon? Mercury answers, He is Philip that hath the hairlesse••scalp. Menippus replyes,* 1.2 Why, they have all bald heads. Merc. Then he with the flat nose. Menip. They have all flat noses. Merc. Then he with the hollow eyes. Menip. They all have hollow eyes, all have naked ribs, disjoynted members, all are car••asses. Why then, says Mer∣cury to Menippus,* 1.3 In Death there is no difference betwixt the King and the Beggar: And it is true, Mors sceptra ligonibus aequat. Men upon Earth, as in the game of Chesse, supply different places; One is a King, another a Queen, another a Bishop, another a Pawn; But when the game is done, and they are shuffled into one bagg into the grave, they are all alike.

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* 1.1

Lucianus.

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* 1.2

T. Adam's on ep. 2 Pet.

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* 1.3

Omnia mors aequat. Claudian de raptit Pros••rp.

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