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

For a living dog is better then a dead Lyon.

For a lyuing dogge is better then a dead Lyon.

¹HE enter laceth a proverb, meaning thus: It sufficeth to correct & redress something in the world, as a live dog, although he be a beast of no great account; yet is he better then the great carcass of the strongest Lyon. This we speak and utter in this wise. Better is a Sparrow sure in hand, then a Crane in doubt. Again, in the Dutch tongue: The child must not be poured out with the water that it hath been bathed in.

¹HE enter laceth a prouerbe, meanyng thus: It suffiseth to correcte & redresse something in the worlde, as a lyue dog, although he be a beast of no great accompt; yet is he better then the great carcasse of ye strōgest Lyon. This we speakē and vtter in this wyse. Better is a Sparrow sure in hand, then a Crane in doubt. Againe, in the Dutch toung: The childe must not be poured out with the water that it hath beene bathed in.

1. 1If thou canst not be a lion be a whelp in thine office.If thou caust not be a lyon be a whelp in thine office.

For the living know that they shall die, but the dead know nothing at