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An exposition of Solomons book called Ecclesiastes or the preacher. Seen and allowedAn exposition of Salomons booke called Ecclesiastes or the preacher. Seene and allowed
An exposition of Solomons book called Ecclesiastes or the preacher. Seen and allowed.An exposition of Salomons booke called Ecclesiastes or the preacher. Seene and allowed.
London: printed by John Daye, 1573London: printed by Iohn Daye, 1573
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
What profit hath he that he hath travelled for the wind?
What profite hath he that he hath trauelled for the wynde?
1TO labour against the wind is an Hebrew phrase, which Paul hath imitated. 1. Cor. 9. I so fight not, as one that beateth the air: And in the 1. to the Cor. the 14. You shall be as men that speak in the wind. It signifieth as much as to speak in vain. So saith Solomon: A covetous man laboureth in the wind, that is, in vain: It is all l•st labour.
1TO labour against the winde is an Hebrew phrase, which Paul hath imitated. 1. Cor. 9. I so fight not, as one that beateth the ayre: And in ye 1. to ye Cor. the 14. You shall be as mē that speake in the wynde. It signifieth as much as to speake in vayne. So sayth Salomon: A couetous man laboureth in the wynde, that is, in vayne: It is all l•st labour.
- 1To labour against the wind.To labour agaynst the wynde.