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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[ V] How it is, that Tyrants are usually not long liv'd.
AS in Nature so in Government, Nothing is permanent that is violent; It is
therefore hard to see an old Tyrant,* 1.1 was the saying of a Wiseman; And
good reason had he for so saying. For though for a time he may uphold his State
by force and policy, yet in the end divine Justice confounds his practices and in∣fatuates
his counsells to his owne ruine and overthrow; For, as in that mortall
warre betweene the great Elephant and poysonfull Dragon, this one with his ta••le
enclaspeth that others feet, making him fall, and he in his fall bursteth himselfe,
and cursheth that other in pieces: So when Ambition and Envy meet as Comba∣tants
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in the heart of a Man,* 1.2 he needes no outward force to assail him; For the
venemous tayle of his Envy entangleth the winged sect of his Ambition, making
him fall,* 1.3 and in the fall to burst with his own weight.