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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186 Of a Phisitian.

AN olde Woman being troubled with pain of hir eyes, bargained with a Phisitian for a certaine sum of money to pay him if he hea∣led hir: if not, he should haue nothing. The phisi∣tian went about his cure, who dayly came and a∣noynted

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hir eyes, but she (that houre he dressed hir) could sée nothing, then he at his departure, caried some thing out of the house. The olde wo∣man sée hir stuff dayly decrease, so that when she was healed, scarse any thing was left, to whome when the Phisitian came and required his bar∣gain, bicause she could sée clearely, and thereof brought witnesses, she saide: Truely I rather sée lesse than before, for when I was blind I coulde sée much stuf in my house, but now that I can sée as thou saist, I perceue nothing of yt which I had.

MOR. Wicked persons not knowing what they doe, speake often against them selues.

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