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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Title: 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 ...
Publication: Printed at London :: By Henrie Binneman,; 1572.
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Subject terms: Fables, Greek.; Fables, Latin.
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239 Of the Wolfe and the Porkupine.

ON a tyme the Wolfe béeing hungry had a fancy to deuoure a Porkupine, whome by∣cause of his sharpe prickes he durst not assayle, but inuented a craftie wile to trap him in, coun∣selling him not to trouble his backe with so ma∣ny weapons in tyme of peace, séeing that other Archers carried none with them but when they goo to warfare: Nay (quod the Porkupine) wée must suppose that there is no tyme voyd of war agaynst a Wolfe.

MOR. A wise man ought always to be armed agaynst the assaults of his enimies.