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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[ 1506] Men of few, and Men of many Words,
their difference.
HOmer in his Iliads hath appointed unto Dreams two dores,* 1.1 the one a dore
of horn, which was the dore of Truth; the other a dore of Ivory which
was the dore of deceipt; For, Horn (as they say) may be looked through; but
Ivory being thick and dark is not transparent: These dores may very well
be applyed to the mouths of men, which are as the Indexes and Tables of the
Heart; For to some it is a dore of glasse, which is soon broke open, and easily
giveth passe to a Multitu••e of words,* 1.2 wherein the Folly of their hearts and minds
is discerned; to others it is a dore of Brasse, firm and solid in keeping in their
words with more care and circumspection, and shewing the firm solidity of their
hearts and minds.