Braggers:
THey that are hungrie, are more prouo∣ked with appetite, if they see others eate: so braggers are more inflamed with glory, whē they heare others extolled. Plu.
Palladis tamia Wits treasury being the second part of Wits common wealth. By Francis Meres Maister of Artes of both vniuersities.
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- Palladis tamia Wits treasury being the second part of Wits common wealth. By Francis Meres Maister of Artes of both vniuersities.
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- Meres, Francis, 1565-1647.
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- At London :: Printed by P. Short, for Cuthbert Burbie, and are to be solde at his shop at the Royall Exchange,
- 1598.
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As many riuals snarle about one loue: so they iar that affect glorie and praise by one thing. idem.
As a Chamaeleon is fedd with none o∣ther nourishment, then with the ayre, and therefore shee is alwayes gaping: so po∣pular applause dooth nourish some, nei∣ther doe they gape after any other thing but vaine praise and glorie. As in times past Herostratus and Manlius Capitolinus did: and in our age Peter Shakerlye of Paules, and Monarcho that liued about the Court.
As the Moone is sometimes big, some∣tymes small, and sometimes is not seene at all, neuer continuing in one estate: so Braggers that place their prayse in Pa∣rasites mouthes, are sometymes extol∣led, as great personages, and sometimes depressed, as base pesants, and sometimes they are no bodie, and sometimes some bodie, as it pleaseth their slipperie tongues to make them. Bernardus sermone de Na∣tiuitate Ioan. Baptistae.