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 ...

Bablers.

15 Of the Asse and the Foxe.

AN Asse put on a Lyons skin and walked a∣brode, putting all other beasts in feare, who on a time séeing a Fox, endeuoured to make him also afraide. But hée (for by chance he heard him bray) said to him: Thou knowest well that I would haue trembled at thée, if I had not herd thy braying.

MOR. Some vnlearned men which outward∣ly beare countenance, through their babling are reproued.

16 Of the Egle and the Pie.

THe Pie sometime desired the Egle, to make him one of his frends of his houshold, bicause the beautie of his body deserued it, and also the redinesse of his speache to doe messages: I would so doe, said the Egle, but I feare least that which I speake within doores, thou wouldest preache it

abroade on the house tops.

MOR. Kepe no bablers nor teltales in thy house.

17 Of a Countreyman that would passe ouer a Ryuer.

A Countrey man ready to passe a streame, which by chaunce was sodenly rysen, wyth late rayne that fell, sought the shallowe. When he had assayed that part of the Riuer which was calmest, he founde it déeper than he supposed: a∣gayne, where it was roughest, there he found it shallowest: then he bethought him whyther he might commit his life to the calmest place of the water, or to the roughest.

MOR. Dreade those lesse whiche are full of woordes and threatnings, than those that say nothing.