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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16799	Strange nevves out of diuers countries neuer discouered till of late, by a strange pilgrime in those parts.	Breton, Nicholas, 1545?-1626?	1622 (1622)	STC 3702.5; ESTC S104700	16,963	28

No man must build castles in the aire for feare they breake his necke in the falling 30. No man mustly open his wiues secrets lest she commit them rather to a wise friend then a foolish husband 31 No man must leaue an old friend for a new for feare he lose by the exchange of his credit 32 No wise man must marry a foole lest shee waste his goods and corrupt the perfection of his capacitie 33 Beggers must keepe from the Alehouse for feare they drinke out the reuenue of charitie 34. Rich men must not counterfet pouertie lest the thiefe discouer the truth of their dissembling 35. No man must be wise in his owne conceit lest he proue a foole ere he be aware 36. No man must talke to himselfe as he walkes lest he be thought to be mad or making verses 37. No Bankerout must purchase land lest hee be thought to cozen his Creditors with his breaking 38. No man must conuerse with a witch for feare he go to the diuell by Atturney 39. No man must put his land into mony lest the Bankerout runne away with his inheritance 40. No man must cary two faces in a hood for feare that the diuell be in one of them 41. No woman must crie when she weepes lest it be thought more for curst heart then any other cause 42. No man must haue two wiues lest one proue too much to be well managed 43. No meetings but for meriment 44. No bargaines but for a bag-pudding 45. Friends must not fall out 46. Neighbours must be friends 47. Patience was neuer angrie and quietnesse was a goodly hearing 48. Fathers darling and mothers nowne childe must be brethren and sisters children and cousin Varmins remoued must trust to the world as they finde it These were the chiefe Articles agreed vpon among his Ninnihammers which being published among poore fo●l●s were kept as well as they could hit on it Now to the purpose such a Commonwealth for a dog being gouerned by Apes and Asses the great Foole of all must needs be a strange beast and yet in the shape of a man he walkes strangely through the world and one thing among other he hit on strangely to saue charges in charitie hee tooke this order for beggers that rather then they should lacke lodging they should sit in the stockes and in stead of almes perswade them to fasting because abstinence is a fit preparation to prayer This little worshipful Iohn a Nods in stead of a mistakē gentleman hath bin in his youth brought vp in learning how to reade ilfauouredly and to write worse and yet with much adoe after his schoolemistris an old woman with spectacles had taught him his Primer and the Clerke of a country Church had taught him to write a Copie or two and put his name to a bill Lobligatorie he grew to such a delight in reading of Ballads and hearing of olde stories that he bought at the second hand out of the Librarie of little learning some few bookes of his mothers language which hauing kept long in an old chest did now serue him for his Librarie which bookes sometime asse he was able to finde idle time which at the best is little better he would now and then take out of his course cabbinet and reade by peece-meales as it came into his addle braine the names whereof as I found them set downe were these I meane chiefly those whom his little vnderstanding tooke most pleasure in Presidents of Imperfections Newes of no importance and Labour in vaine And first for Presidents of Imperfections He that would put out his eyes because he would see no vanities would be a blind man and so an imperfect man He that would cut out his tongue because he would tell no vntruthe should be a dumbe man and so an imperfect man He that would cut off his hands because he would take no bribes should be a lame man and so an imperfect man And as of men so of women A maide is no perfect woman because without the helpe of man she is onely called a Maide and not a woman A widow is an imperfect woman because with the losse of her man she loseth the title of a woman and is onely called a widow but not a woman A barren woman is no perfect woman for a woman was created to increase an multiply till therefore she haue brought forth children she is an imperfect woman except the fault be in the man and then he is an imperfect man to put such imperfection vpon a woman A whore is no perfect woman for euery woman is either a maide a wise or a widow and being neither of these she must needs be a monster and so an imperfect woman A painted woman is no perfect woman for all women by nature are either faire or foule but if an artificial faire be set vpon a foule complexion it makes but a speaking picture and a picture is no perfect woman These and such like were his Presidents of imperfections which for his poore instruction he would take some idle humors to bestow his blind sight vpon The next booke was intituled Newes of no importance which I found set downe as followeth First in the Gulfe of small grace neare to the coast of Comgligrande vpon the fourteenth day of the fifteenth moneth in the strange yeare of foule weather it is said that in the passage boate betweene Verola and Gon●ria two dangerous places for infection the boate entring into the Lake of Lasciuiousnes a very vnwholsome harbor with ouercharging the vessell perished a great number of poore people who bringing but common ware to the market and their greatest losses being Asses and galled Hackneys it seemed there was no great misse of them for I find nothing worthy nothing written of them and therefore being Newes of no importance they serued onely for a tale of a tub to exercise the braines of such a Hogshead Secondly from the land of Vnluckinesse in the citie of Sinfulnesse it was reported that Sir Henrie had land Sir Lawrence litle wit and Sir Ninny nothing worth three Knights of the Order of Saint-Asse men of infamous memorie after that they had runne through the courses of expences without euer hope of recouerie of either coine or credit going in the gulfe of Canavery to see a Beare hunt a wilde ducke fell by chance into a But of Malligo where they were drowned horse and foot what became of their Funerals or Epitophs vpon their deaths hauing no matter in their liues to be recorded I can say nothing but that the Newes being of no great importance it is no matter for their passage out of life but for feare of their passage to no better and so let them go and as many fooles as will follow them Thirdly in the Iland of Saint Elfe the great Ladie of little worth which was no lesse kinde to her neighbours then readie to entertaine strangers and for her recreation had set vp many May-poles in