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Genre:
"Proverb"
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Gender of Author:
"Male"
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Work title:
"A Collection of English Proverbs Digested into a Convenient Method for the Speedy Finding Any One upon Occasion"
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Literary Period:
"Seventeenth Century"
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Metaphor Category:
"Plant"
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Date: 1670, rev. 1678
"The brain that sows not corn plants thistles."
preview | full record— Ray [formerly Wray], John (1627-1705)
Date: 1670, rev. 1678
"Corn is cleansed with the wind, and the soul with chastning."
preview | full record— Ray [formerly Wray], John (1627-1705)