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.
Author
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 June 6, 2024.

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Exiguum malū ingens bonum.

A lytle euyl, a great good. Of a ly¦tel incōmoditie and labour other∣whyles is gathered moste greate and hyghe commoditie. To this agreeth the excellent sentence of Musoni{us} yt Aulus Gellius* 1.1 remē∣breth

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in his. vi. boke whyche is this: If thou do any honest thyng wyth laboure, the labour goeth a∣way, the honestie remayneth. But yf thou do any dishonest thyng wt pleasure, the pleasure goeth away the dishonestie remayneth.

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