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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[ 205] There's no dependance for great Men upon Popularity.

ICarus, in the Poet, being furnished with wings by the Art of his Father Daeclalus, could not content himself in a lower sphere,* 1.1 but he must needs be soaring so high, that the Sun melting the wax wherewith his wings were fastened, he fell down head-long to his own destruction. These two wings of Icarus thus joyned on with wax, are just like Popular and Military dependance in Noble men to make them great: they will help for a while to make them so, and mount them aloft in the thoughts of Men, and then fail them at the very height; It is therefore safer to stand upon two feet, then flie with two wings, the two feet of Justice Communicative and distributive; For great Men shall grow greater if they but advance merit, and relieve wrongs.

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* 1.1

Ovidii Metam. Sir Rob. Dal∣lington's Apho¦risms.

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