Bibliotheca scholastica instructissima. Or, A treasury of ancient adagies, and sententious prouerbes selected out of the English, Greeke, Latine, French, Italian and Spanish. Ranked in alphabeticall order, and suited to one and the same sense. Published by Thomas Draxe Batch. in Diuinitie.
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Bibliotheca scholastica instructissima. Or, A treasury of ancient adagies, and sententious prouerbes selected out of the English, Greeke, Latine, French, Italian and Spanish. Ranked in alphabeticall order, and suited to one and the same sense. Published by Thomas Draxe Batch. in Diuinitie.
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Draxe, Thomas, d. 1618.
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Londini :: Apud Ioannem Billium,
1616.
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"Bibliotheca scholastica instructissima. Or, A treasury of ancient adagies, and sententious prouerbes selected out of the English, Greeke, Latine, French, Italian and Spanish. Ranked in alphabeticall order, and suited to one and the same sense. Published by Thomas Draxe Batch. in Diuinitie." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A20796.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 26, 2024.
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LITERA Q.
¶ Question.
...LIke question, like answer.
Qualis interrogatio, talis responsio.
Quo casu quaeris hoc respondere teneris.
...A man must not shape an answer be∣fore that he know the question.
Respondere ad aliquid, cum non∣dum audieris & stultum & ig∣nominiosum. Prou. 18. c. 3.
Priusquam partem audieris v∣tramque, ne iudicem agas.
¶ Quickly.
...At a trice.
...In a moment.
E vestigio.
Dictum, ac factum. Ter.
Iovis quadrigis. Plaut.
Citiùs quàm asparagi loquuntur. Suet.
...As quicke as a Bee.
Ocyor accipitre. Hom.
Pegaso velocior.
Talaria induit. Cic.
Celer, vt mens & ala. Hom.
Verus obediens mandatum non procrastinat. Bern.
¶ Quietnesse.
...He that will line in peace, must heare, see, and say the best.
...Little said, and soone amended.
...Of little medling commeth great rest.
...It is better to play with the eares, then with the tongue.
Nihil aequè prodest ad vitam tu∣tam, quàm quiescere, minimum cum alijs loqui, tecum pluri∣mum. Sen.
Heu, quantum miseris lingua no∣cere potest.
〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. i. peregrinus cum sis, sis quietus & bene habebis.
Libentiùs audias quàm loquaris.
—Nulli tacuisse nocet, nocet esse loquutum.
Fideli tuta silentio merces.
...It is good to keepe himselfe quiet.
...It is good to sleepe in a whole skinne.
〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉.
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Si cupias pacem, linguam compes∣ce loquacem.
Periculosa res est temeritas, bona est quies.
Negotiosa res est litigare.
Cùm licet fugere, ne quaere litem.
Testudo intra tegumen tuta est. Luc.
Sapiens mavult esse in pace, quàm in pugnâ.
Innocuus alium aspicium meum habentem malum.
...A little with peace, is better then a great deale with warre.
Crede mihi, benè qui latuit, benè vixit, & intra
Fortunam, debet quisque manere suam.
Malo domi meae vivere sine peri∣culo, quàm alienae cum peri∣culo.
Etiam pacem volunt, qui possunt vincere.
Egere praestat in solo, quàm divi∣tem sulcare fluctus.
Iniquissima pax est iustissimo bello anteponenda. Cic.
— Pax optima rerum.
...It is not good to wake a sleeping dogge.
Quum furor in cursu est, currenti cede furori.
〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉.
Litis praeteritae noli maledicta re∣ferre. Cato.
— Plus foetent stercora mota.
Te mulentus dormiens, non exci∣tandus. Theog.
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