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 15, 2024.

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59 Of the Harte and the Wolfe.

A Hart sometime accused a Shéepe before the Wolfe, that he ought him a bushel of wheat: The shéepe in very déede knew nothing of this, yet for feare of the Wolfe, promised payment. A day was set, which béeing come, the Hart put the Shéepe in remembraunce thereof, she deny∣ed it, excusing that promise to be made for feare of the Wolues presence. Forced promises are not to be kept.

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MOR. It is a clause of the lawe, force muste haue the repulse by force. But thereof commeth a new sentence: It is lawfull to pay craft with the lyke.

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