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 8, 2024.

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195 Of a Wolfe fallen into a pit.

A Fox espying a Wolfe fallen into a hole, dyd laugh, & reioysing skipped about the brinkes of the Pit, calling him foolish beast, which would

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not beware of mens deceits. As he thus wantō¦ly scoffed, the earth fayled, and caried him heade, long in also: whome the Wolfe séeing to fall saide: I shall nowe carye a great comfort of my death to hell, bicause I see the Foxe (which moc¦ked me) perishe with mee.

MOR. We ought not reioyce at anothers mi¦serie, seing we may fal into the same likewise.

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