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 7, 2024.

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72 Of a Couetous man dying.

AS a couetous man lay a dying, and vnderstood that at lengthe he should cary nothing with him, he turned him to his friendes and neighbors whome he sawe present, and sayd: Learne of me, which al my life time haue endeuoured to gather goods, that yée trauaile not too muche to heape vp riches: for of so many Acres of lande, of so muche

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precious apparell which with so great sweating, I haue gotte, I shall haue but a hole of fiue foote, and one shéete, wherewith being dead, I shall be couered.

MOR. It is a foolishe and miserable thing to bestowe so muche laboure in gathering of goods, which (whether we will or not) we must quick∣ly leaue.

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