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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Title: 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 ...
Publication: Printed at London :: By Henrie Binneman,; 1572.
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Subject terms: Fables, Greek.; Fables, Latin.
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Helpe in neede.

172 Of the Countryman and the Horse.

A Coūtrymā draue by the way a spare horse, and an Asse sore laden with packs, the Asse béeing weary with trauayling, prayed the Horse if he would saue his life, to ease him som∣what of his burthen, the Horse thought skorne & denied his helpe: It hapned as they trauayled on in their iourney, the Asse being ouerladen, fel vnder his burthen & dyed, then his maister layd all the Asses burthen and eke the skin vpon the horse, wherewithal his back began to crack: Ah wretch y^t I am, sayd the Horse, I am thus iustly serued, bicause that lately I refused to helpe the poore laboring Asse.

MOR. Wee must helpe our friends that are in miserie, for parte of our rising our country claymeth, and part our friendes.