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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125 Of the Countryman, and the Serpent.

AS a Countrimā walked about his grounds, he found a Serpent in the snowe nigh deade with colde, which he pitying much, brought home, and laid him by the fires side. The serpent by reason of the fire come againe to his strength and venime, could no longer endure the heat, but filled all the cottage with his hissing. The Coun∣tryman gotte vp a stake, and ran at him, where∣with he stroke him, and then tooke him vp for that displeasure, saying: Wilt thou thus recom∣pence my curtesie? Goest thou about to destroy him that saued thy life?

MOR. It chanceth often, if a man saue a théefe from the gallowes, he wil soonest séeke his death, and on whome men bestowe moste labor, of him they shall reape least good.