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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[ 1925] The heavy weight of Government ill attained.
SIdonius Apollinaris relateth,* 1.1 how a certain Man, named Maximum, who ar∣riving
at the top of greatnesse, and that by means sufficiently indirect, was
the very first day of his Government much wearied and perplexed in his
thoughts, insomuch, that fetching a deep sigh, he broke out into this expres∣sion;
Oh,* 1.2Damocles! how happy wast thou for having been a King but a dinner∣while,
Whereas I have been so one whole day, and cannot possibly bear it any longer:
Thus without all doubt his heart and head too must needs ake, whose browes
are empailed with a Crown that is ill acquired, his shoulders bow whereon lyes
the weight of a Government usurped, and his hands tremble that swayes the Scep∣ter
of an ill-gotten power and dominion.