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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A Caveat for Flatterers. [ 1803]

IT was a significant and well deserved punishment,* 1.1 that Alexander Sever•• allotted to Turinus, a fawning Flatterer, (one that could lick a moath in a Gnathonicall sordid way) to be tyed to a stake, and stifled with smoak, with an Herald standing by and proclaiming to all the People; Fumo punitur qui fumum vendidit, He lived by smoak blinding Mens eyes, and by smoak let him dye: A good Caveat for those that think to purchase and preserve love and favour,* 1.2 by deifying the undeserved and crystallizing dusty sordid actions, They may chance to plead, that he that will not flatter, shall hang under the wheel, that he that dares to tell a great Man,* 1.3 he is not just; or a General, that he is not va∣liant; or a Lady, that she is neither beautifull nor virtuous; shall never be Counsellor, Commander or Courtier: but Solomon, a wiser Man, is rather to be believed, who bids us take it on his word, that he that rebukes a Man,* 1.4 (though for the present he may storm) shall afterwards find more favour, then he that flattereth with his tongue, Prov. 28. 3.* 1.5

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* 1.1

El. Lampri∣dius in vita.

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* 1.2

W. Price Sermon at S. Mary Spit∣tle, 1642.

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* 1.3

Isto maximè tempore regnat vitium adula∣tio••s, &c.

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* 1.4

Tul. ad ••e∣lant.

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* 1.5

Prov. 28. 3.

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