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 16, 2024.

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Faultes punished.

132 Of a wicked man and the Diuel.

A Wicked man hauing committed many hey∣nous offences, for which he was often appre∣hended and committed to prison, where he was kept very straightly, besought the helpe of a Di∣uel, which often had aided and deliuered him out of trouble. At lengthe he was taken againe, who

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(as he wonted) required succoure of the Diuell: who came to him, carying a gret bundel of shoos on his shoulders and saide, friende, I can helpe thée no longer, for I haue trotted to so manye places for thy deliueraunce, that I haue worne out all these shooes, and I haue no money left me to bye any more, wherefore thou muste néedes peryshe.

MOR. Let vs not beléeue alwayes to scape scotfrée with our faultes.

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