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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"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 ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A61120.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 1, 2024.

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[ 198] Sathan suiting himself to all humours.

IT is observable,* 1.1 that a Huntsman or Forrester goeth usually in green, suitable to the leaves of the Trees, and the grasse of the Forrest, so that by this means, the most observant in all the Heard,* 1.2 never so much as distrusteth him, till the Arrow stick in his sides. And thus the Devill shapes himself to the fashions of all men; if

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he meet with a proud man, or a prodigal man, then he makes himselfe a flatterer; if a covetous man, then he comes with a reward in his hand. He hath an apple for Eve, a grape for Noah, a change of raiment for Gehezi, a bag for Iudas. He can dish out his meat for all palats, he hath a laste to fit every shoo, he hath something to please all conditions, to suit with all dispositions whatsoever.

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