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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[ 1912] Promises without abilities of performance
not to be regarded.
IN the country Carinensis of Spain,* 1.1 there is a River that shews all the Fish in
it to be like Gold, but take them into your hand, they appear in their natural
kind and colour: Such are Promises, and specious pretences of love in his
mouth, that would obtain his purpose; bring them to the touch, and thou
shalt find, All is not Gold that glisters: Great boast and small roast will never
fill the belly;* 1.2 He therefore that will engage himself into any great action,
upon promise of great assistance if he be not as sure of his Friends ability in
power, as readinesse in Will, he reckons without his Hoast, and sits down with
the losse.
Notes
* 1.1
Plin. hist. lib. 3. cap. 103. Sir Rob. Dallington Apho∣risms.