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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29 Of a Boaster.

A Certayne man, who hauing traueled farre, returned into his countrey, and made great vauntes of his manly actes that he had done in many places, especially y^t he had daūced a daūce at Rhodes, that none of that place could: for proofe whereof, he sayde, that he had to witnesse them which were there present, to whom one of them that stoode by, aunswered: Sir, if this be true, what néedeth witnesse, there stands Rhod••••, and there is thy daunce.

MOR. All talke is superfluous, excepte we haue present proofe.