238 Of a Foxe and a Dog.
A Fox being coursed by a Dog, and euen at ye pointe to be caught, hauing no way to shifte him, said: why woldest thou destroy me thou
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 ..." 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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dog, séeing my flesh yu canst not eat? Go catch ra∣ther that Hare (for there was one then harde by) whose flesh men iudge to be the swéetest: the dog harkened to the counsel of the Foxe, and let him goe free, pursuing the Hare, whom bycause of his wonderfull swiftnesse he could not ouer∣take. Not long after, the Hare mette with the Foxe, blaming him for setting the Dog at him. The Foxe aunswered him: I maruell what thou meanest to accuse me, which praysed thée so greatly: what wouldest thou haue sayde, if I had dispraysed thée?
MOR. Many vnder the colour of praysing, de∣uise vtter vndooing to some men.