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The vvell of wisedome, conteining chiefe and chosen sayinges vvhiche may leade all men to perfect and true vvisedome, as vvell to Godvvard as to the vvorlde Gathered out of the five bookes of the olde testament, especially belonging to vvisedome, that is to say, the prouerbes of Salomon, Ecclesiastes, Canticum, Sapientia and Ecclesiasticus, and bestowed in usuall common places in order of A. B. C. By T. C.

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The vvell of wisedome, conteining chiefe and chosen sayinges vvhiche may leade all men to perfect and true vvisedome, as vvell to Godvvard as to the vvorlde Gathered out of the five bookes of the olde testament, especially belonging to vvisedome, that is to say, the prouerbes of Salomon, Ecclesiastes, Canticum, Sapientia and Ecclesiasticus, and bestowed in usuall common places in order of A. B. C. By T. C.
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Imprinted at London :: By Thomas Vautroullier for VVilliam Norton,
1577.
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Bible. -- O.T. -- Selections -- Early works to 1800.
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"The vvell of wisedome, conteining chiefe and chosen sayinges vvhiche may leade all men to perfect and true vvisedome, as vvell to Godvvard as to the vvorlde Gathered out of the five bookes of the olde testament, especially belonging to vvisedome, that is to say, the prouerbes of Salomon, Ecclesiastes, Canticum, Sapientia and Ecclesiasticus, and bestowed in usuall common places in order of A. B. C. By T. C." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A19071.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 14, 2024.

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Prayse.

* 1.1 LEt another man prayse thee and not thyne owne mouth: yea other folkes lippes and not thyne.

* 1.2 He that is to hasty to praise his neigh∣bour aboue measure, shall be taken as one that geueth him an euill reporte.

* 1.3 Siluer is tried in the moulde, and golde in the fornace, and so is a man when he is openly praised to his face.

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