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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Page 75
THe Wolfe and the Asse were sawyers toge∣ther, but the Asse wrought aboue, & the wolf beneath, who sought occasion to slea his fellowe, wherfore he sayd: Ah wretched Asse, why doest y• cast dust into myne eyes? Forsooth (quod he) I do not, but rule it after my knowledge: if it please thee to sawe aboue, I wil beneath. Tushe (quoth the Wolfe) I sée what thou dost, if thou cast any more into my eys I wil plucke out thine: when he had thus said the Wolfe blew harde, that the dust might flie vp into his fellowes eyes, but the timber staying it, it fell into his owne: where∣with being sore troubled, he sware, that he wold ouerthrow the porters, but sodeynly it fell, and kylled the the Wolfe.
MOR. Mischief commonly lighteth vpon the pate of the Author.