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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Riches very dangerous in the getting of them. [ 1635]
SUppose a Tree,* 1.1 whose leaves and boughs were clog'd and hung with honey,
unto which an hungry Man coming, falls a licking one bough and leaf after
another, untill he is carried so high from one to another through the greedi∣nesse
of his hunger, that he slips and slides, and cannot stay himself, but down he
comes, and breaks a leg or an arm, and it is well if he escape with his life: So
dangerous is it to climb up the Tree of Riches; For most commonly Men lay
hold so upon one hundreth after another,* 1.2 one thousand after another, per fas et ne∣fas, no matter how or which way they do it, though they endanger them∣selves
sore, even to the loss of their pretious and immortal Souls to all Eterni∣ty.