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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Bis pueri senes.
Olde folke are twyse chyldren, or double chyldren. Aristotle in his politykes writeth,* 1.1 that after two and fyfty yeares, the sharpnes of wyt waxeth blounte & dull, wher∣fore comonly from that tyme men & women growe euery day more chyldyshe and more, so that when they come ones to extreme age as to foure scoore or there aboute, they dyffer in wytte and fascyons very lytle from chyldren. I saye cōmonly, for al be not so, but such as exercyse not their memory, and wol not retayne theyr myndes oc∣cupyed