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A66701	The new help to discourse or, Wit, mirth, and jollity. intermixt with more serious matters consisting of pleasant astrological, astronomical, philosophical, grammatical, physical, chyrurgical, historical, moral, and poetical questions and answers. As also histories, poems, songs, epitaphs, epigrams, anagrams, acrosticks, riddles, jests, poesies, complements, &c. With several other varieties intermixt; together with The countrey-man's guide; containing directions for the true knowledge of several matters concerning astronomy and husbandry, in a more plain and easie method than any yet extant. By W. W. gent.	Winstanley, William, 1628?-1698.; Winstanley, William, 1628?-1698. Country-man's guide. aut.	1680 (1680)	Wing W3070; ESTC R222284	116,837	246

Thus Englished Thy praise not fraud thy virtue not thy store Made thee to climb that height which we adore For which Encomion he was set at liberty and being gone out of the Popes Jurisdiction he sent to his Holiness and desired according to his own true meaning to read the self same verses backward which then run thus Eximium decus hoc fecit te scandere rerum Copia non virtus fraus tua non tua laus Englished The height which we adore what made thee climb Nor virtue nor thy worth rather thy crime Qu. What Inscription or Motto was that which Martin de Arsello fixing over his Gate by reason of false pointing of the Painter cost him his Bishoprick An. Porta patens esto nulli claudaris honesto Where the Painter mistaking himself made the Comma at nulli by which it was thus Gate be open to none but shut out all honest men The Pope riding that way before Martin had corrected his inscription taking it for a a grand abuse towards him discarded him of his bishoprick and placed another in his house who kept the inscription still but only added the Comma and made it thus Porta patens esto nulli claudaris honesto Adding thereto Ob unum punctum caret Martinus Asello Gate open to the good and shut out none For one poor point all is from Martin gone The like fallacy was used to our King Edward the second who being made a prisoner by his Rebellious Subjects to his Keeper was sent this verse To seek to shed King Edwards blood Refuse to fear I hold it good Where his Keeper making the comma at fear when it should have been at refuse the unhappy Prince by that disloyal Legerdemain of words lost his life Qu. In what Aenigma or Riddle was that Grand Traitor Oliver Cromwel's name included An. The Heart of the Loaf and the head of the Spring Is the name of the man that murther'd the King The heart of the Loaf is the Crom and the Head of the Spring is the Well which put together is Cromwell Qu. Which were the ten general Persecutors so famously known in the primitive Church An. The first was under Nero that bloody persecutor and enemy of mankind who set the City Rome on fire and ript up his Mothers belly to see the place of his conception Anno 67. The second was under Domitianus Anno 96. The third under Trajan Anno 100. The fourth under Marcus Antoninus Anno 167. The fifth under Severus Anno 195. The sixth under Maximinus Anno 237. The seventh under Decius Anno 250. The eight under Valerianus Anno 259. The nineth under Aurelianus Anno 278. The tenth under Dioclesian Anno 293. Yet notwithstanding these cruel Persecutions wherein as one of the Fathers writeth there were murthered five thousand every day in the year excepting onely the first day of January yet were they like Camomile the more they were trode on the thicker they grew and the blood of the Martyrs proved to be the seed of the Church Qu. How many were the Sybils and what were their names An. They were in number ten viz 1 Persica 2 Lybica 3 Delphica 4 Cumea 5 Samis 6 Helespontiaca 7 Tiburtina 8 Albunea 9 Erythrea 10 Cumana The first was of Persia called Samberta which among other prophecies said The womb of the Virgin shall be the salvation of the Gentiles The second was of Lybia one of her Prophecies were The day shall come that men shall see the King of all living things The third was Themis sir-named Delphica because she was born and prophesied at Delphos where was the Oracle and Temple of Apollo one of her Prophesies runs thus A Prohet shall be born of a Virgin The fourth was Cumea born at Campagnia in Italy of whom Virgil maketh mention in his book of Aeneids who prophesied That God should be born of a Virgin and converse among sinners The fifth was called Samia born in the Isle of Samos which said He being rich should be born of a poor Virgin the creatures of the earth should adore him and praise him for ever The sixth was called Hellespontiaca born at Marmiso in the Territory of Troy she prophesied A woman shall descend of the Jews called Mary and of her shall be born the Son of God his Kingdom shall remain for ever The seventh was Albunea sir'named Tyburtina because she was born at Tybur fifteen miles from Rome one of her prophesies was this The invisible word shall be born of a Virgin he shall converse among sinners and shall of them be despised The eighth was Albunea who prophesied The Highest shall come from Heaven and confirm the Counsel in Heaven and a Virgin shall be shewed in the Valleyes of the Desarts The ninth was the famous Erythrea born in Babylon who especially prophesied a great part of our Christian Religion in certain Verses recited by Eusebius the first Letters of every which Verses being put together makes these words Jesus Christ Son of God Saviour These verses are translated into Latine by St. Augustine Lib. 11. Cap. 25. of The City of God where they may be read at large and are excellently well translated be Sir John Beaumont where they may be found amongst his Poems The tenth was called Cumana from the name of the place where she lived she prophesied That he should come from Heaven and reign here in poverty This last Sybil is affirmed to be she who writ the Nine Books of the Sibyls which were by an old woman presented to Tarquinius Superbus demanding for the same a great sum of money which he being unwilling to pay the old woman burnt three of them before his face requiring as much money for the other six which being denied she also burned three more of them asking as much for the three remaining as for the rest which Superbus amazed gave and the old Trot vanished These books containned manifest Prophecies of the Kingdom of Christ his Name his Birth and Death They were all afterwards burned by the Arch-traitor Stilico so that those Prophesies which are now extant are onely such as are extracted out of others writings wherein mention of them was made Qu. What is it that may be said concerning the ubiquity of Marriage An. One Bed can hold a loving man and wife A whole house cannot hold them being at strife Qu What is the difference between the love and lust of a Courtezan An. That her love is like breath on steel soon on and soon off but her lust is as the Ocean still ready for an anothers embraces and prostitutes her body to every new commer Qu. What is the difference betwixt saying nothing and doing nothing An. The Poet will tell you in these verses Little or nothing said soon mended is But they that nothing do do most amiss Qu. What may Law in the abuse thereof fitly be compared unto An. To a thicket of Brambles into which by tempest the poor sheep being driven from the

than wise did undiscreetly refuse the same A short English Catechism We must believe twelve and we must do ten And pray for seven if we 'll be godly men Qu. What strange custom is that which is reported of the Muscovia women An. That they love those Husbands best which beat them most and think themselves neither lov'd nor regarded unless they be twice or thrice a day well-favourdly bang'd To this purpose there is a story reported of a German Shoemaker who travelling into this Countrey and here marrying a widow used her with all kindness that a woman could as he thought desire yet still she was discontented and the more he sought to please her the further off was from any content at last learning where the fault was and that his not beating her was the cause of her discontent he took such a vein in cudgelling her sides that in the end he killed her I suppose it would be a very hard matter to bring up this custom in England or to perswade our women that their Husbands beat them out of pure love which they bear unto them Qu. How comes it to pass that there be more women in the world than men An Some assign this reason because that women are freed from the Wars which devoureth many thousands of men few of them pass the dangers of the Sea suffer imprisonment and many other troubles and hazard of the Land to which men are incident and this they think to be a sufficient reason others there are who argue more merrily alledging that in the whole course of Nature the worst things are ever the most plentiful hence we have more Weeds than Hearbs more Lead than Silver more Crows than Partridges more Women than Men and therefore one thus merrily writes of that Sex If women were as little as they 're good A Pescod shell would make them Gown and Hood And another to the like purpose There is not one good woman to be found And if one were she merits to be crown'd Qu. Who was the first that invented Printing An. He who first taught it in Europe was one John Gutthenburg a German about the year of our Lord 1440. at Haarlem it is said to be first practised and at Menez perfected M. C. T. de officiis was the first Book which ever was printed which Copy is to this 〈◊〉 reserved in the publick Library in Frankford though many are of the opinion that the Chynoys had it long before us who print not as we use from the left hand to the right nor as the Jews from the right to the left but from the top of the leaf downward to the bottom whoever invented it no question but it is a most noble and profitable Art we having that done in one day by one man that without it many could not do in a year by writing Only I wish this most exquisite invention were not so much abus'd and prostituted to the lust of every foolish and idle Paper-blurrer the treasury of Learning being never so overcharg'd with froth and scum of foolish and unnecessary Discourses as by this means many people having a great ambition to be known in the world though they get nothing thereby but only to become Fools in print Qu. Who invented Guns An. That fatal Instrument the Gun was first found out by one Bartholdus Swart a Franciscan Fryer and a great Alchymist who being one time very studious to find out some experiments in his Art was tempering together Brimstone dryed Earth and certain other Ingredients in a Mortar which he covered with a stone The night growing on he took a Tinder-box to light him a candle where striking fire a spark by chance flew into the Mortar and catching hold of the Brimstone and Salt-petre with great violence blew up the stone The Fryer guessing which of his Ingredients it was that produced this effect made him an Iron pipe crammed it with Sulpher and stones and putting fire to it saw with what great fury and noise it discharged its self then longing to put his invention in execution he communicated the same unto the Venetians who having been often vanquished by the Gensuese and driven almost to a necessity of yielding to them by the help of these Guns gave their enemies a notable overthrow This was about the year of our Lord 1330. being the first battel that ever those warlike pieces had part in which not long after put to silence all the Engins and devices where with the Ancients were wont to make their Batteries of which Engine we may say as the Poet formerly did of that weapon the Sword Of murdering Guns who might first Author be Sure a steel heart and bloody mind had he Mankinds destruction so to bring about And death with horrour by near ways find out Qu. Where was wild-fire invented An. At the siege of Canstantinople by Caliph Zulciman about the year of our Lord 730. with which the Grecians did not a little molest the Saracens Ships This fire we for the violence of it call Wild-fire and the Latins because the Greeks were the inventers of it Graecus ignis Qu. Who invented the Battle-Axe An. Penthesilea who came with a troop of brave Virago's to the aid of Priam King of Troy she fought with the Battle-Axe and was slain by Pyrrhus Son to Achilles not long after her death was Troy taken by the Greeks who lost of their own men 860000. and slew of the Trojans and those that came to help them 666000. so as that of Ovid may be truly inferred Jam seges est ubi Troja fuit resecandaque falce Luxuriat Phrygio sanguine pinguis humus Corn sit for siches now grows where Troy once stood And the Soyl's fatted with he Phrygian blood Qu. By whom were the games of Dice and Chess first invented An. By the Lydians a Countrey of Anatolia who being sorely vext with famine invented the games that by playing at them they might beguile their hungry bellies Necessity thereunto informing according to that of Persius Artis Magister ingeniique largitor venter Qu. Who were the first Inventers of Paper and Parchment An. Paper was first found out in Aegypt and made of thin Flakes of Sedgy-weeds growing on the banks of Nilus called Papyri from whence it tooks it name By means of this invention Books being easier to be transcribed and reserved Ptolomeus Philadelphus made his excellent Library at Alexandria and understanding how Attalus King of Pergamum by the benefit of this Aegyptian Paper strived to exceed him in that kind of magnificence prohibited the carriage of it out of Aegypt Hereupon Attalus invented Parchment called from the place of its invention Pergamena from the materials thereof being Sheep-skins Membrana the conveniency whereof was the cause why in short time the Aegyptian Paper was quite worn out in place whereof succeeded our Paper made of rags The Author of which invention our progenitors have not committed to memory the more is the pity that he

THE NEW HELP TO DISCOURSE OR WIT MIRTH and JOLLITY intermixt with more serious Matters Consisting of pleasant Astrological Astronomical Philosophical Grammatical Physical Chyrurgical Historical Moral and Poetical Questions and Answers AS ALSO Histories Poems Songs Epitaphs Epigrams Anagrams Acrosticks Riddles Jests Poesies Complements c. With several other Varieties intermixt Together with The Countrey Man's Guide CONTAINING Directions for the true knowledge of several Matters concerning Astronomy and Husbandry in a more plain and easie Method than any yet extant By W. W. Gent. The Second Edition That Author best of all doth write Who mixeth Profit with Delight London Printed by T. S. and sold by the Book-sellers of London and Westminster 1680. THE NEVV HELP TO DISCOURSE Quest WHat is the chief end of writing Books Answ For instruction and information whereas idle Books are no other than corrupted Tales in Ink and Paper or indeed Vice sent abroad with a License wherein two are guilty of evil he that writes them and he that reads them being in effect like the brutish sin of Adultery wherein two are concerned in the same sin and therefore his resolution was good who said That for bad Books he would write none lest he should thereby hurt others in the reading of them nor would he read any of them for fear the Author should answer for his sin by being corrupted by them Quest What Book of all others is the best Answ The Holy Scriptures contained in 〈◊〉 Old and New Testament wherein the Mysteries of our Salvation are contained being the Book of all books and in compa●●●on of which no book is comparable Qu. Of how many chapters doth this Book consist An. In the Old Testament or Bible there are 777. In the new Testament 260. In the Books of Apocrypha 173. The total being 1210. And for the number of Verses in the Old Testament the Jewish Rabbins have computed them thus In the Books of the Law Verses 5845. In the Prophets 9294. and in Haggai 8064. Total 23203. Q. Are there no other Books mentioned in the Old Testament but those which we have now at this day A. Yes there were the Books of Iddo and Gad the Seers besides Solomon wrote three thousand Parables and five thousand Songs with a Book of the Nature of all Herbs Trees and Plants from the Cedar to the Hysop upon the wall Samuel also writ a Book of the Office and Institution of a King There were also Chronicles of the Kings of Judah and Israel besides those we have in the Scripture being as is judged written far larger all which Were supposed to be lost in the Jewish Captivity at Babylon Q. What was St. Augustine 's answer to one who demanded what God did before he made the World A. That he was ordaining a Hell for such kind of Enquirers Where the Scripture hath not a mouth to speak we ought no● to have a tongue to ask Q. What was the greatest love that ever w● shown in this World A. The love of God to poor sinners wh● gave his only begotten Son to dye for us of which one thus writeth God is my gift himself he freely gave me Gods gift am I and none but God shall have me Q. In what things had woman the Preheminence of man in the Creation A. In these three First that whereas man ' was made of the dust or slime of the earth woman was made of that dust or slime refined Secondly man was made out of Paradise woman in Paradise And thirdly when God is said to be about to make woman he is said to build her as being about to make a curious Edifice or more excellent structure than that of man Q. What Book next to the Holy Scripture would you chiefly desire the rest being taken away A. Theodore Beza being asked this question answered Plutarch an excellent Author for his Lives and Morals Another said Seneca whose divine Sentences in his Book are so squared by the Rules of Christianity that St. Hierom concluded him amongst the Catalogue of Divine Writers Another preferred the Thesaurus Historiarum being a Compendium of most Histories and worthy Examples And that Ornament of History Dr. Heylin gives the preheminency to Sir Walter Rawleigh's History of the World which he calls Primus in Historia Q. St. Bernard a learned Father of the Church greatly wondred at three Conjunctions the like whereof never was nor never will be and what were they A. 1. Conjunction of God and man 2. Of a Mother and a Virgin 3. Of Faith and the heart of man to believe the same The first whereof is most wonderful that the Deity should be joyned to the Humanity Heaven to Earth Majesty to Infirmity The second also very wonderful that a Maid should be a Mother and yet remain a pure Virgin The third though inferior to the two first yet wonderful that a mans heart should have power to believe the same Reason doth marvel how Faith tell can That a Maid should be a Mother God a man But cease so to marvel and believe the wonder For Faith is above and Reason is under Q. How long according to the opinion of some men shall the world continue from the Creation to the end thereof A. The Thalmudists were of opinion that it should continue six thousand years of which opinion also were some of the fathers and others of our Modern Writers because that as God created the World in six days and rested the seventh so in six thousand years which are in account of God but as six daies it shall again be annihilated when shall follow an eternal Sabbath of rest to all the Faithful Others reckon it after this manner two thousand years before the Law two thousand years under the Law and two thousand years under the Gospel But this account agreeth not right with the Calendar of Time and therefore we may conclude that those who account not right the years which are past must needs be ignorant of those which are to come Besides our Saviour saith that of that day and hour the very Angels in Heaven themselves are ignorant Let us therefore rather labour to prepare our selves against that day than curiously seek to pry into such hidden and unrevealed things Q. In what part of the world was it where the Cock crowed so loud that all the men of the world heard it A. In Noah's Ark. Q. What is the Anagram for the name of the Virgin Mary A. MARY Anagramma ARMY And well her Name an Army doth present In whom the Lord of Hosts did pitch his tent Q. What answer gave Queen Elizabeth when being a prisoner in the Reign of her Sister Queen Mary she was by one of the Bishops demanded her opinion concerning the real presence of Christ in the Sacrament A. Christ is the Word that spake it He took the Bread and brake it And as the Word did make it I do believe and take it Q. Who are those that cannot will not