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 15, 2024.
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Honor.
176 Of a Mule.
A Mule being fat and pricked with prouēder, cryed aloude and sayd: My father is a swifte running horse, & I am altogether like him, but once when he should néedes run, and in run∣ning stayed, he straight way remembred that hée was an Asses foale.
MOR. Though time bring a man to promoti∣on, yet ought he not to forget his estate, for thys lyfe is vnstable.
177 Of a king and Apes.
A Certaine King of Aegipt appoynted Apes to be taught to daunce, whiche as no beast is of liker fauoure to a man, so none counterfayteth
better or willinglier a mā in his dooings. They hauing learned very quickly the art of daūcing, on a daye appoynted they began to daunce, and were clad in the richest purple. Their dauncing delighted the cōpanie a long time, vntil a merye conceited fellow cast down amongst them nuts, which he priuily hadde caried in his bosome: the Apes had no soner séene the nuts, but forgetting the daunce, became as they were afore time, of dauncers, Apes, byting and tearing their clothes in pieces, and fighting together for their nuts, not without great laughter of the beholders.
MOR. The giftes of Fortune chaunge not a mans disposition.
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