A Schole of wise conceytes wherein as euery conceyte hath wit, so the most haue much mirth : set forth in common places by order of the alphabet / translated out of diuers Greeke and Latine wryters by Thomas Blage ...
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A Schole of wise conceytes wherein as euery conceyte hath wit, so the most haue much mirth : set forth in common places by order of the alphabet / translated out of diuers Greeke and Latine wryters by Thomas Blage ...
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Printed at London :: By Henrie Binneman,
1572.
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Fables, Greek.
Fables, Latin.
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"A Schole of wise conceytes wherein as euery conceyte hath wit, so the most haue much mirth : set forth in common places by order of the alphabet / translated out of diuers Greeke and Latine wryters by Thomas Blage ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A99901.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 7, 2024.
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171 Of a man and a woman twice maried.
A Certein man hauing buried his wife, whiche he loued well, and maried a widowe whiche dayly laide in his dish the manlynesse of hir for∣mer husband: he bicause he would be euen with hir, dasht in hir téeth his other wiues honest be∣hauiour and chaft lyuing. It hapned on a time, when she was angry, a begger came to the doore and asked their almes, to whom she gaue a péece of Capon which she for hir owne supper and hir husbands boyled, saying: I giue thée this for the
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soule of my first husband: Hir good man hearing that, called the poore man and gaue him the rest of the Capō, saying: I giue thée this for the soule of my wife that is dead: by which means either spyting other, at length hadde nothing for their supper.
MOR. We must not fight with those that can reuenge their quarell.
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