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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[ 551] Riches ill gotten, never prosper.
SAlis onus unde venerat illuc abiit, saith the Latin Proverb, The burthen of Salt is
returned thither from whence it came.* 1.1 The occasion was this; A Ship la∣den
with Salt being torn by wrack, let the Salt fall into the Sea from whence it
was first taken: So for the most part, Goods gotten by spoil, or plunder, are usu∣ally
lost in the same way; Vespasian's Officers, that by rapine and exaction, filled
themselves like spunges,* 1.2 after they were full, were squeezed by the Em∣qerour:
And it is dayly seen, that the spoiler is himselfe spoiled, and that which
was gathered by the hire of a Whore, returneth to the wages of an Harlot,
Mich. 1. 7.