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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"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 ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A61120.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 16, 2024.
THe great Conquerour of the world caused to be painted on a Table,* 1.1 a Sword
in the compasse of a Wheel; shewing thereby, that what he had gotten by
the Sword,* 1.2 was subject to be turned about by the wheel of Fortune. Such is the con∣dition
of all things here below, whether they be Riches, Honours, or Preferments,
there is no more hold to be had of them, than Saul had of Samuel's lap; they do
but like the Rainbow,* 1.3 shew themselves in all their dainty colours,* 1.4 and then vanish
away; and if by chance they stay with us as long as death, they do but like Saint
Paul's friends, bring us to the grave, as they brought him to the ship, and there
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leave us: So uncertain,* 1.5 deceitfull, unconstant, are the things of this world, to the
owners thereof.