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 June 8, 2024.

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303 Of the Harte and the Oxen.

A Harte being pursued of a hunter, ran into an Oxe stall, praying the Oxen to hide him in the rack: they tolde him that there was no safe harbo∣ring, for both their maister & his seruants would come thither: He answered yt he was safe inough so that they would not bewray him: the seruants came in, and mistrusting nothing to be hid in the hey, departed: the Hart was excéedingly glad, and

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feared nothing. Then one of the Oxen older and wiser than the rest, sayd to him: It is an easy ma∣ter to deceiue him that is as blinde as a Mole, but if thou escape our maister, which hath an hundred eyes, I will warrant thée: Streight after came in the maister to redresse his seruants negligēce, looked rounde aboute, and groping in the racke, felte the hornes of the Hart, and cryed out for his seruants, who straightway came, tooke the beast and slue him.

MOR. When one is in perill, it is harde to finde a place to hide him in, eyther it is that Fortune tosseth the oppressed, or that béeing afrayde, and vncertaine what to do, thorough follie they betray themselues.

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