Trying of friends.
278 Of a man that would trie his friends.
THere was a certein man very riche and libe∣rall, whiche had many friends whom often times he had did to supper, to the which willing∣ly they came, & bicause he might yt better know
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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whether they would be trustie in time of néede, he assembled them togither and told them that he had foes lately vpstart, whiche he meaned to destroy, praying them therefore to arme them∣selues and come with him to reuenge his qua∣rel: then euery one began to excuse him selfe sa∣uing two, whiche he accounted for his friendes, and afterward loued them dearly, but the other he reiected.
MOR. The best trier of friendes is aduersitie.