27 Of Scholers.
A Certayne Whéele wright had bene often de∣luded by Schollers, which wer vagabunds,
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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which came to him for almes, saying they had great skill in Magike, and that they coulde doo many things: of which number, there came one a begging to his doore, in the name of a Maister of the seuen lyberall Artes, to whom he sayde: My friende, were not you héere the laste yere? No (quod the Scholer:) depart therfore (quod he) and come no more héere, for I will giue thée nothing. The Scholer was offended, and as∣ked why he spake in the singuler number to him, béeing a Maister of the seuen liberal Artes, and a Magitian. He aunswered: I know much more than thou doest: for with one handie craft labour I fynde me, my wyfe and children, but thou with thy seuen Artes canst not fynde thy self, but goest a begging. Wherfore thou ough∣test to reuerence me, and not I thée. When hée had so sayde, the Scholer departed, well mocked.
MOR. It is a folly to boaste of any tytle, where as knowledge wanteth of that which is professed.