A centurie of similies. By Thomas Shelton.

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Title: A centurie of similies. By Thomas Shelton.
Author: Shelton, Thomas, 1601-1650?
Publication: London :: Printed by Iohn Dawson,; 1640.
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Subject terms: Meditations -- Early works to 1800.
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90 Corruption discovered. (Book 90)

A Man that stirreth with a * 1.1 staffe in a vessell or spring of faire water, though the wa∣ter be stirred it continueth still * 1.2

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in its clearenesse, but stirring in a puddle or finck it is present∣lymuddy and offensive. So when men provoked by others, are transported by their passions, the cause is not from the provo∣cation of others, but from the corruption in themselves.

Notes

* 1.1

Puddle.

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* 1.2

Iam. 1. 13. 14.

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