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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[ 1588] The general badnesse of Memory in good things.

AS it it with a Sieve or bowlter,* 1.1 the good Corn and fine flower goes through, but the light chaffe and coorse bran remains hehind: Or as a Strainer, that the sweet liquor is strained out, but the dreggs are left behind. Or as a grate, that lets the pure water run away; but if there be any strawes, sticks, mud, or filth,* 1.2 that it holds. Thus it is with most Mens Memories, by Nature they are but, as it were, pertusa dolia, meer riven tubs, especially in good things very treacherous, so that the vain conceits of Men are apt to be held in, when divine Instructions and gracious Promises run through; trifles, and toyes, and Worldly things they are apt to remember, tenacious enough; but for spiritual things they leak out, like Israel they soon forget them, Psal. 106. 13.

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* 1.1

D. Gouge Serm. at S. Pauls, 1636.

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* 1.2

Memoria homi∣nis ade•• labilis est, ut agrè re∣perias duot quiquae semel audierunt, &c. Erasm. in Apoph∣thegm.

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