Prouerbes or adagies with newe addicions gathered out of the Chiliades of Erasmus by Richard Tauerner. Hereunto be also added Mimi Publiani.

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Prouerbes or adagies with newe addicions gathered out of the Chiliades of Erasmus by Richard Tauerner. Hereunto be also added Mimi Publiani.
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Erasmus, Desiderius, d. 1536.
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Imprinted at Lo[n]don :: In Fletstrete at the sygne of the whyte Harte [by Richard Bankes] Cum priuilegio ad imprimendum solum,
1539.
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Aphorisms and apothegms -- Early works to 1800.
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"Prouerbes or adagies with newe addicions gathered out of the Chiliades of Erasmus by Richard Tauerner. Hereunto be also added Mimi Publiani." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A68027.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 23, 2024.

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Mendacem memorem esse oportet.

A lyer ought not to be forgetfull. It is very harde for hym yt lyeth, alwayes to agre in one tale, onles he hath a ryght good memorie, for asmuche as the remembraunce of thynges feined, is farre more hard than the memorie of true thynges By reason whereof for the moost parte the deuysours and forgers of lyes are by thys meanes taken,

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while forgettyng what they spake afore, they speake thynges contra¦ry and repugnaunte to theyr for∣mer tale.

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