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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Friendes.

147 Of a Phisitian.

A Phisitian hauing the cure of a sicke man, whose chaunce was to die, sayde to them whiche caried the corps, this man if he had refrayned wine and taken clisters, had bin aliue at this day: then one of them that were by aun∣swered: Sir your aduise should haue ben shewed when it mighte haue done good, and not nowe when it is to late to call him back.

MOR. Friends should helpe in time of néede.

148 Of the Countryman and the Mouse.

THere was a Countryman very poore, but yet so merie conceyted, that in his moste miserie he forgot not his naturall pleasauntnesse. It happened that his ferme house by chaunce was set on fire, which burned so sore, y^t he mistrusted the quenching, which wyth heauye chéere he be∣held. In y^e mean time he espied a Mouse running out of the ferme, which made hast to escape bur∣ning. The Countriman forgetting his losse, ran after the mouse, & caught him, slong him into the midst of the fire, saying: Thou vnthākful beast, in tyme of my prosperytie thou dwelledst wyth me, nowe bicause Fortune is chaunged, thou hast lefte my house.

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MOR. Those are no true fréends which cleaue to thée like a burre in thy felicitie, but in aduer∣sitie swiftly run away.

149 Of the Lion and the Hogge.

THe Lion intended to gette him a companion, whervpō many beasts desired to be matched with him, yea and instantly required it, but hée set light by them, & chose only the Hog into hys fellowship, whereof being demaunded the cause, answered, this beast is so faithfull that he neuer forsaketh his friends or fellowes in the greatest daunger that can be.

MOR. Wée séeke the friendship of those men which in time of néed cleaue to vs, and not those which giue vs the slippe.