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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Death.

86 Of the Swanne singing at the poynt of death.

A Swanne being néere at the poynt of death, was asked of the Storke, why he soong swe∣ter, being nigh his deathe, (which all other beastes doe so much hate) than in all his life time before, séeing at that time he ought to be sorie: the Swanne aunswered: Bycause from hencefoorthe I shal not be troubled with séeking for meat, ne∣ther shall I néede to feare the Foulers ginne.

MOR. We are warned héereby not to feare death, being by that berefte from all miseries.

87 Of an Olde man which set trees.

A Man of very olde age, was mocked of a yong man, bicause he plāted trées, wherof he shuld neuer sée fruite: The olde man aunswered: Ney∣ther thou perhappes shalte gather fruite of those

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which thou goest about to sette. Shortly after the yong man fell oute of a trée, which he climbed to gather heries, and brake his necke.

MOR. Death spareth no age.