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 May 3, 2024.

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237 Of the Owle.

IN the assembly of birdes, the Eagle sayde that he would choose the yong ones of other birds to serue in his court: and when euery one stroue to preferre his owne, the Owle sayd: I pray thée (O Quéene) receiue mine, which in beautie passe all the rest: why (quod the Egle) what beautie are thy sonnes of? The Owle answered: Of the same that I my selfe am. Then all the Birdes laughed excéedingly.

MOR. No childe is so deformed, which to his parentes seemeth not faire.

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