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 ...

Hatred.

170 Of a Serpent and a Husbandman.

A Serpent lurking in y^e entry of a husband∣mans house, slue his boy, for whome his pa∣rents mourned much, but his father for so∣row tooke an axe, went out and would haue kil∣led the Serpent, y^e husbandman séeing him looke vp, made hast to strike him, but he missed him, for he stroke the mouth of his hole: whē the ser∣pent was gon in and the husbandman thynking that he had forgot the wrong, he came and sette bread and salte before the hole, but the Serpent softely hissing, saide: Hereafter neyther trust or friendship shal be betwéene vs as long as I sée a stone and thou thy sonnes graue.

MOR. None forgetteth hatred or vengeaunce as long as he séeth the cause of his gréefe.

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

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.