Boni pastoris est tondere pe∣cus non deglubere.
It is the partes of a good shep¦herde or pastor to sheare the shepe and not to plucke of theyr skinnes
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 June 6, 2024.
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Page xlix
This prouerbe did Tiberius Ce∣sar an Emperoure of Rome aun∣swere to certayne of hys frendes,* 1.1 which counsayled him to inhaūce the rentes and exactions of suche as helde of him. Also Alexander kynge of Macedonie surnamed the greate,* 1.2 when one aduertysed him yt he myghte take farre grea∣ter tributes of the cities that he had cōquered, aunswered agayne on this wyse. I hate that gardi∣ner which cutte of the herbes by the harde rotes: meanyng ye same thynge that Tiberius meaned.
This prouerbe agreeth aswell vpō kynges & other magistrates as vpon bisshoppes curates and all other ecclesiastical ministres.
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* 1.1
Tiberius
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* 1.2
Alexander.