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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58 Of the Elme and the Osier.

THere sprong vp an Elme in the banke of a Riuer, which mocked an Osier that grew nexte him, for his weakenesse, bycause that with the least beating of the water he moued, but of his owne strength and stoutnesse he boa∣sted excéedingly, and how that he had continued there many yeres, not able to be shaken by the violence of the water. It hapned on a tyme, that by force of the waues he was broken downe, and caryed away by the streame: Then the O∣sier mocked him, saying: Whither away neigh∣bour, wilte thou nowe forsake me? Where is nowe thy strength become?

MOR. Those men are wyser that giue place to their betters, than they that doo contende and haue a foule ouerthrowe.