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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121 Of the Couetous man and the Enuious.

TWoo men made their prayer to Iupiter, a Couetous man and an enuious, who sent A∣pollo to them to satisfy their desires, he gaue thē free libertie to desire, vppon this condition, that what soeuer the one required, the other shoulde receiue duble. The couetous man was long in doute: bycause he thought nothing was ynough: at length he asked no smal thing, his companion receyued double so muche. The Enuious man requested one of his owne eyes to be put out, gretly reioycing that his fellow shuld lose both.

MOR. Couetousnesse neuer sayth ho: as for Enuie, nothing is more madde, which wisheth him selfe mischief to hurte an other withall.