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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A vain rich Man. [ 496]
AS a Brook with a fall of Rain-waters,* 1.1swells, and, as it were, proud of his late
encrease, makes a noyse, nay runs here and there to shew it selfe, till by run∣ning
it hath run out all that ever it had: Even so some rich men, upon some fall
of wealth begin to swell, as if they were little Seas; then make a noyse of ostentati∣on;
and because they have but one tongue of their own, they get the eccho of
some soothing flatterers▪ they over-flow the lower grounds, the poor, and spread
their names in letters of bloud; in the end after some short noyse, as the brook leaves
nothing but dirt and mire behind, so do they leave nothing at their death to them∣selves
but confusion before God and men.