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A50818	Miscellanea, or, A choice collection of wise and ingenious sayings, &c of princes, philosophers, statesmen, courtiers, and others out of several antient and modern authors, for the pleasurable entertainment of the nobility and gentry of both sexes / by G.M.	Miege, Guy, 1644-1718?	1694 (1694)	Wing M2014; ESTC R31228	47,603	172

that I must leave this good Man unpaid to whom I owe a considerable Sum. 'T is true answered the Hatter that I am put to great Straits but that your Eminence may see I will not come short of any of your Creditors in point of Civility and Respect to your Person here are three Hats more which I beg your Eminence to accept of and carry with you to Rome This excessive Kindness from an ordinary Tradesman as it surprised all the Company so it drew Tears from the Cardinal with Thanks to Providence for the good Will of all of them towards him And after his Death his Brother did so punctually answer the Cardinal 's just Meaning that none of his Creditors lost any Thing by him II. A Gentleman who was great with the foresaid Cardinal went every where with him except to Church Which gave occasion to his Eminence to tell him he was his Friend usque ad Aras III. An Author having dedicated a Latine Book to Cardinal Richelieu and sent him a Copy of it the Cardinal answered his Civility in these three Words only Accepi Legi Probavi that is I have perused the Book you sent me and do Approve of it IV. Varillás speaking to one of Cardinal Baronius Ah! poor Baronius says he with his Twelve great Volumes it was God's great Mercy that he did write no more V. Cardinal Mazarine being told the Peace he had made was not advantagious to the People made this Return 'T is a young Tree says he that bears no Fruit as yet dabit Fructum suum in tempore VI. Instead of saying that a certain Bishop was made Cardinal the usual saying was that he was got into the College of Cardinals it being the first College he hapned to be a Member of VII A Bishop at Rome came to acquaint Cardinal Pole that he was going to his Diocess for a Month. I am glad on 't said the Cardinal for your sake you will suffer so much the less in Purgatory BISHOPS I. A Bishop being gone to Rome to make his Court in order to be made a Cardinal the Pope told him one Day that he was informed of his being a Bastard To which he made this Answer V. S. a fatto tanti altri Cardinali Asini che potrebbe far un Mulo That is to say Your Holiness has made so many Asses Cardinals that you may as well raise a Mule to that Dignity II. Another being gone to Rome for the same Purpose came home re infectâ and brought a great Cold with him Which one attributed to his Coming home without a Cardinal's Cap. III. A French Bishop being consecrated in the Sorbonne in the presence of a great many Bishops making a Semicircle in the Dome a Lady ravished with the sight of them in such Order said that she thought her self in Paradise In Paradise reply'd a Gentleman who stood by her there are not so many Bishops of our Church to be seen IV. A Gascoon bearing a Grudge against the Bishop of Bazas his Diocesan swore a great Oath he would never say Prayers any more in his Diocess Crossing over a River the Boat had a Mischance which made it leak The Waterman seeing his Boat sinking warned the Gascoon to commend his Soul to God Ay but said he are we still in the Bazadois meaning the foresaid Bishop's Diocess V. Upon ones saying that a certain Bishop had the Gout another that stood by alledged the Canon that says Si quis dixerit Episcopum podagrâ laborare Anathema sit VI. The Bishop of Grace in France having preached a Sermon upon Grace I have heard said the Bishop of Bellay one of his Hearers a Sermon upon Grace delivered with a good grace by the Bishop of Grace VII Some Country Bishops being with the Arch-Bishop of Paris told him they were amazed at one Thing in his Conduct that he never had any Difference with his Chapter 'T is my Opinion answered the Arch-Bishop that none but Country-Husbands will fall a cudgelling their Wives VIII The same Arch-Bishop being made Duke and Peer of France Now said one it cannot be said that Paris is Peerless IX A Bishop being often out when he preached and a Lady hapning to see his Picture somewhere One would think says she that he preaches X. A Bishop of Grenoble in Dauphiné who used to wear a long Beard had something faln upon it as he was eating Which a Servant of his taking notice of told him something did stick to his Greatnesses Beard Why not rather said one that sat by Vpon the Greatness of your Beard XI Another French Bishop of great Worth but a professed Enemy to Monks had some Difference with a great Cardinal who then governed the Kingdom of France This Cardinal however had him in so great esteem that he resolved to draw him into his Party in order to which he offered him an Abbey Which the Bishop refused saying that his Conscience would not allow of Plurality of Livings The Cardinal amazed at so unusual a Nicety of Conscience amongst Clergymen made him this Return My Lord says he you are a good Man and I would Canonize you for a Saint if you had not writ as you have against the Monks Would to God reply'd the Bishop that it were in your Power and that I deserved it then we should be both satisfy'd Thus he ingeniously checkt the Cardinal's Ambition by telling him that if he Canonized him they should be both satisfy'd For then the Cardinal must be Pope and he a Saint which was the Thing they aimed at XII A Bishop intertaining several Prelates at Dinner made a great shew of his wonderful Quantity of Gold and Silver Plate made by the best Workmen that could be got The Magnificence whereof being admired by the Company This I purchased said the Bishop in order to assist the Poor of my Diocess To which one of the Company answered ingeniously My Lord you might have spared them the Charge of the Making XIII A Bishop in the Reign of Henry VIII being appointed by the King to go to King Francis I with the Character of Embassador in a dangerous Juncture he represented to the King that such a threatning Embassy as he charged him with to so high-spirited a Prince as Francis I would go near to cost him his Life and therefore begg'd of the King he would be pleased to dispense him with that Commission Fear nothing said the King to him if the French King were so bold as to take away your Life I should infallibly revenge your Death by taking off many Heads for one from the French now in my Power I am apt to believe it reply'd the Bishop smiling but of all those many Heads there is none so fit for my Shoulders as this Head of mine STATESMEN AND COVRTIERS I. NOLI videri sapiens coram Principe is a Lesson of wise Solomon which puts me in mind of a Portugueze Statesman Whose Prince the King of Portugal being about to send

he to guess who was thy Father Which struck home Metellus his Mother having a wanton Character XIX A late Orator got his Hair cut off in order to wear a Wig which did so strangely alter his Countenance that his nearest Friends could scarce know him again Being imploy'd to open a Conference which he did to admiration a Friend of his told him after the Conference Sir I knew you again only by your Eloquence AVTHORS I. CICERO to express what Advantage he reaped from reading of good Authors has these Words Soleo saepe in aliena Castra transire non tanquam Profuga sed tanquam Explorator II. Pura Impuritas is the Character Lipsius gives of Petronius Pura in reference to the Style Impuritas meaning the obscene Discourses that are in it III. An Author making a System of the World and having spent many whole Days about it Remember says a Friend of his unto him that when God created the World he rested the seventh Day IV. Isaac Vossius intertaining one Day Monsieur de Sorbiere at Dinner pressed him to drink telling him that Sorberius came à Sorbendo V. An Author's House being on fire whilst he was poring on his Books he called to his Wife and bad her look to it You know says he I don't concern my self with the Houshold VI. When Varillas his History of Heresies came out his very Friends found many Flaws in it Which made one of them tell him between Jest and Earnest that he had writ a Book full of Heresies VII Dr. Heylin a noted Author amongst us especially for his Cosmography hapned to lose his Way going to Oxford in the Forest of Whichwood Being then attended by one of his Brother's Men the Man earnestly intreated him to lead the Way till he had brought him past the Wood to the open Fields But the Doctor telling him he could not tell which Way to lead him Strange said the Fellow that you who made a Book of the whole World cannot so much as find your Way out of this Wood. VIII The French Book called Les Origines de la Langue Françoise and written by Monsieur Menage being mentioned to Queen Christina Menage says she is a Man who will not only know whence a Word comes but whether it goes IX One having writ a Book in order to publish it sent it first to a competent Judg to peruse it and have his Opinion of it Who having perused the same told him his Opinion was that he should leave out one Half and suppress the other X. Another being come to wait on a Learned Man in the Winter Season and sitting with him by the Fire pulled a Copy out of his Pocket which he intended for the Press and begged of him to cast his Eye upon it Who having read some Pages over but finding little or nothing in 't fit for the Publick held the Book to the Fire saying Sir if you please we may bring it to Light presently and you will find this the best way to gratify the Publick XI A Gentleman telling an Author that he was reduced to live upon the Muses Milk That cannot be reply'd the Author being the Muses are Virgins and therefore without Milk unless you have prostituted them XII In the Year 1665 the French Academy were very busy in settling the Gender of a Comet some being for the Masculine and others for the Feminine Gender At last starts up one of their Members saying To what purpose is all this Debate when the Comet now to be seen may easily determine the Point 'T is but looking adds he under its Tail XIII An Author having found but one Fault of the Printer's in a Book of his finished at the Press was in a quandary whether he should make it Errata or Erratum But a Friend of his told him Let me but peruse the Book I warrant you I shall find another Fault and that will make it Errata XIV A French Author in an Epigram of his against a Maker of Anagrams expresses thus the Pains he takes to find Words in Words Evisceratis Verba quaerit in Verbis XV. Daniel Heinsius loved Drinking which discomposed him sometimes for his Lectures After one of his drinking Bouts some unlucky Students pasted up these Words over the Door of his Lecture-Room Daniel Heinsius non leget hodie propter hesternam Crapulam XVI To one saying that Tertullian's Style is Dark it was answered that it is like Ebony full of glorious Darkness XVII Monsieur Vaugelas having obtained a Pension from the late French King by the Mediation of Cardinal Richelieu the Cardinal told him I hope Sir you will not forget the word Pension in your Dictionary No my Lord answered Vaugelas neither will I forget the Word Gratitude XVIII A famous Member of the French Academy being gone to the Academy took the Abbot Furetiere's Place whom he had had no Kindness for Some time after he said reflecting upon Furetiere Here 's a Place Gentlemen where I am like to come out with a thousand Impertinencies Go on answered Furetiere there 's one out already POETS I. PHiloxenes a Greek Poet having been condemned by Dionysius the Tyrant to work in the Quarries for not approving some Verses of his making the Tyrant released him to shew him some new Verses of his And as he had a great Ambition to pass for a good Poet so he did not doubt but the Releasing of Philoxenes would induce him to give his Approbation to this his Trial of Skill But he was much surprised when the Poet hearing his new Verses cry'd out Let me go back again to the Quarry II. Another Poet who had often presented Augustus with Verses to his Praise the Emperor in a jocose humour told him one Day that it was but just he should make him some Return for his Verses and at the same time presented him with an Epigram he had made Which being read by the Poet he presently pulled a Purse out of his Pocket in which were some Pieces of Gold This he presented to the Emperor telling him that he wished he had a better Present to make him in Return of his fine Verses Thus he cunningly insinuated to the Emperor that a Poet ought not to be paid by a Prince in his own Coyn and Augustus was so pleased with the Fancy that the Poet fared much the better for it afterwards III. Pontanus having made an Enigm upon a Hole in this following Verse Dic mihi quid majus fiat quo pluria demas Scriverius answered extempore Pontano demas Carmina major erit IV. When Mary Stuart was Wife to King Francis I this Verse was made upon her Jure Scotos Gallos Thalamo Spe possidet Anglos V. An Italian Poet having offered a Copy of Verses of his to the Censure of an excellent Critick he made such Corrections and Alterations in it that it proved quite another Thing Tutto se nê andato in limatura Is all filed away into Dust said the Poet

his Album Amicorum I writ down this Greek Verse of Homer 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 That is We must make much of a Friend while he is with us and let him go when he thinks fit XXVII A Gentlewoman complaining that she catched Cold whenever she went abroad to buy Things in the Shops because they lay open and exposed to the Air an Acquaintance of hers advised her Never to go thither but on Sundays and Holy Days XXVIII One seeking for a Lodging met with a Friend of his and asked him whether his Landlord's House was very lightsom or not I have answered his Friend lodged there several Years but always went out so early and came home so very late that I could never see Day-light in it XXIX Another being forced to find a Citizen's Security and at a loss how to get it offered instead of it a Security and a she Citizen XXX 'T is said of one who never eat at home and railed at every one that he never opened his Mouth but at the Cost of others XXXI A dignified Clergyman having invited several of his Friends to Dinner upon a Fish-day his Purveyor told him he had been in the Market and that there was no Fish left but one Salmon which was kept for a Judge Whereupon his Master gave him a Bag of Money bad him go back and buy the Salmon and the Judge XXXII Two Ge●… being together one that 〈…〉 go without a Stick as the other could not read without Spectacles the first seeing the other take up his Spectacles to read Rather says he to him than make use of Spectacles I should chuse to forbear Reading And I reply'd the other rather than go with a Stick I should forbear going XXXIII In Montagne's Book of Expences there was this Article amongst others Item for my lazy Temper 1000 Livers XXXIV A Man having dreamt that he was eating of a new-laid Egg went to an Interpreter of Dreams to know the Meaning of it Who told him the White of the Egg signify'd Silver and the Yolk Gold so that he must prepare himself for a good Chance And 't was not long before he had a Windfal which brought him both Silver and Gold He went to thank the Interpreter and presented him with a piece of Silver But the Interpreter who loved the Yolk better than the White of an Egg did not forget to put him in mind of it Nil ne de Vitello XXXV A Person of Quality owed a Gentleman a Thousand Pounds Meeting together in a fair Road where both their Coaches went a good rate the first looking out of the Coach called to the Gentleman and begged a thousand Excuses And I beg said the Gentleman presently a thousand Pounds XXXVI To one asking why a lean Person is apter than a fat one to Love this Reason was given Because a lean Person 's Heart being nearer for want of Flesh is more easily wrought upon XXXVII If you ask why borrowed Books seldom return to their Owners this is the Reason one gives for it Because 't is easier to keep 'em than what is in them XXXVIII A Gentleman riding an unruly Horse the Horse capered and kicked and the Rider unwilling to yield whipt and spurred him as fast One that stood by bad him have more Wit Another to whom the Fact was related I know the Story says he but 't was not to the Rider he spoke 't was to the Horse XXXIX One that had a stinking Breath fell a singing before Company The Words are very good said one of the Company but the Air is naught XL. A Minister in Languedoc made a Walk of Mulberry-Trees before his Church Door and every Year made Money of the Leaves thereof for the use of Silkworms After some Years he bestowed the Money upon the Reparations of the Portico with this Inscription upon it MORI LVCRVM XLI The first time Dr. Casaubon went into the Sorbonne before it was rebuilt he was told concerning the Hall that it had served four hundred Years for Disputations Ay but says he was there ever any Decision made in it XLII Upon an Eclipse of the Sun which hapned some Years since a Gentleman went to give a Lady of great Quality a Visit who asked him What News abroad The Sun says he Madam plays at bo-peep XLIII A Gentleman speaking of the Houses of Paris said They were so very high that they hindered the Prospect of the City XLIV In the Gallery of Versailles there are long Forms of massy Silver so that many Men together can't lift one up Upon sight whereof the Embassadors of Siam said it was a very good way to secure them from Thieves XLV Cardinal du Perron had a Brother who was an Hermaphrodite When he was born the Midwife explained the Case thus to the Mother Your Son says she is a Girl and your Daughter a Boy XLVI Few People know the Meaninging of these five Vowels A E I O U thus placed in the Arch of the Emperor's Palace of Vienna Where they were put in it seems to signify Austriacorum Est Imperare Orbi Universo XLVII A Lacedemonian being asked by one of the chief of Athens but a wicked Man who was the best Man at Lacedemon made him this severe Return He is the best Man there says he that is least like unto thee XLVIII An Italian Priest called il Piovano Arlotto famous for witty Repartees being come to Naples went to pay his Respects to King Alphonso then reigning Who being informed that he kept a Book of the most noted Errours of the chief Men of his Time Sovereign Princes not excepted asked Messer Piovano whether or no he was in his Book I 'le see answered Piovano who by the King's Order went and fetched the Book Being returned he shewed the King the Place of the Book he was in with these Words Errour committed by Alphonso King of Naples in sending a German belonging to his Court into Germany with 12000 Florins of Gold to buy Horses for His Majesty Upon sight whereof the King asked him wherein lay the Errour In trusting the German with such a Sum of Money answered Piovano But if he comes back with the Horses repli'd the King or brings me my Money again what then Messer Piovano Then says he I 'le put your Name out of my Book and write the German instead on 't Which Answer the King was so well pleased with that he sent home Piovano with Presents after he had intertained him for some time at his Court. XLIX A Monk going to Preach some Leagues off went to Dinner at a poor Country-Priest's House who had neither Bread nor Wine good enough for him The Monk sent out to buy better with some other Provisions And as he was ready to sit at Table he came out with a fine Service of Silver-gilt enamelled Which so dazzled the Priest that he asked the Monk whether he had made his Vow of Poverty Do you question it said the Monk Then reply'd the Priest You and I could make a good honest Monk for you made the Vow of Poverty and I observe it L. The Duke of Ossuna being Viceroy of Naples went on a great Holy-day to view the King of Spain's Galleys in order to set some Slaves at Liberty according to his Privilege He asked several of them what Crime had brought them to their slavish Condition And all pretended to be Innocent but one who freely owned all his Crimes and confessed that he deserved a much severer Punishment Away with this wicked Man said the Duke lest he should pervert all those good Men of his Gang. Thus the Galley-Slave by his ingenuous Confession got his Liberty whilst the rest were ridiculed for want of Ingenuity LI. A Grandee of Spain being desirous to have a good Scholar with him to converse with a Friend of his presented him one Whom he asked presently whether he could make Verses You shall judge of it My Lord said the Scholar by what I have done and brought him the next day a great Bundle of Spanish Verses of all sorts Upon sight whereof the Grandee told his Friend that Man was not fit for him And his Friend asking the Reason of it I confess answered the Grandee that I count him Ignorant who can make no manner of Verses but that Man sure is a great Fool for having made so many as he shewed me A pleasant Satyr against all professed Poets I mean such as make it their whole Business to make Verses LII Two Brothers lodging together who were very like one another and had the same Name a Gentleman desired to speak to one of them Which of them said one of the Servants The Counsellor said the Gentleman They are both Counsellors answered the Servant He that Squints They squint both He that is Married That they are both He that has a handsom Wife They are both handsom 'T is then he that is a Cuckold By my Troth Sir I think they are both Cuckolds Well then said the Gentleman these two Brothers are the most like that ever I heard of LIII A Princess of great Wit came into a Province where the Ladies came to pay her their Respects Finding little in their Converse that deserved her Attention and being however willing to keep 'em in Discourse she asked a young Lady of the Town where she was how many Children she had I have three Madam answered the young Lady Not long after the Princess taken up with other Thoughts asked her again the same Question To which the young Lady made this smart Repartee I have not Madam been brought to Bed since you first asked me the Question and so I have still but three Which free and pleasant Answer as it quickened the Princess's Attention so she ever since had the greater esteem and love for the Lady FINIS