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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The true Christian takes no comfort in this World. [ LXXVIII]

EDward the third,* 1.1 having the King of Scots, and the French King, his prisoners here in England, both together at one time, held royall Justs in Smithfield; the Just being ended, he feasted both the Kings sumptuously at supper; after sup∣per, perceiving the French King to be sad and pensive, he desired him to be mer∣ry as others were. To whom the French King answered, Quomodo cantabimus can∣tica in terra aliena? How shal we sing songs in a strange land? If the French King after all this princely pastime,* 1.2 and stately entertainment, took it so heavily to heart, that he was kept prisoner out of his own Country;* 1.3 great then must needs be the mourning of every good Christian, for his captivity here in this world, that he is forced to sojourn in Meseck, and live in the tents of Kedar; that he must make his abode here below, especially seeing, that he neither hath such welcome in the world, as the French King had in England; neither yet is England so far from France, as Heaven (the place of his desires) is from them both.

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* 1.1

Ral. Holling∣shed's Chron.

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* 1.2

Th. Sutton's Disce vivere.

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* 1.3

Vbi Christus in∣cipit dulcescere; necesse est am••∣rescere mundum Bern, in Serm.

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