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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Gayne.

151 Of the Larke.

A Lark being caught in a net, wept and said: Woe is mée wretch and vnhappy birde, for I haue taken frō no man either gold, siluer, or any other thing, but for a grain of corne I die.

MOR. This fable is against those which for a trifling gayne put them selues in daunger.

152 Of a wilde Asse.

A Wild Asse seing a tame Asse in a fūny place, wēt to him & accoūted him blissed, bicause he had good féeding & was in good liking: afterward seing him beare burthens, & the horsekéeper fol∣low, striking him with a staffe, he sayd, I thinke thee nowe no more happie, for I sée that with much sorrow thou enioyest this felicitie.

MOR Gaine ful of miserie and daunger, is not to be followed.