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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Riches oft-times prove pernicious to the owners thereof. [ 226]

QUintus Aurelius, in the daies of Sylla, (that Sylla of Rome) had a fair Grange,* 1.1 that lay commodious to some great one; for love whereof, he was attainted, and killed amongst them that were put to death:* 1.2 whereupon he cryed out, when he saw his name in the paper, Fundus Albanus me perdidit, Out alaffe, it is my land that I have at Alba, and not any offence that I have done,* 1.3 that is the cause of my death. And is not this the case of many a man amongst us? hath not many a man suffered for his means sake? It is a common saying, that when any man is in trou∣ble, his means will hang him. Who were they, that heretofore were robbed and plundered? were they not the ablest, and the richest of the land? Did you ever hear of a poor Malignant? It was the hainousnesse of the wealth, not the hainousnesse of the fact, that hath undone many a good Family. So pernicious, prove rich••s many times to the owners thereof.

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* 1.1

Plutarch. in Sylla.

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* 1.2

B. Smith's Ser. on loh. 6.

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* 1.3

Grave quid pro∣dest pondus mi∣hi divitis auri? Tibull.

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