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A15754 A display of dutie dect vvith sage sayings, pythie sentences, and proper similies: pleasant to reade, delightfull to heare, and profitable to practise, By. L. Wright. Wright, Leonard, b. 1555 or 6. 1589 (1589) STC 26025; ESTC S102227 30,145 48

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found one but amongest all women I haue found none The property of a good Seruant IT is required in a good seruant to haue the backe of an Asse to beare all things patiently the tongue of a shéepe to kéepe silence gently and the snout of a swyne to féede on all thinges heartily large eares light féet a trustie right hand loth to offend diligent to please willing to amende and sufferance disease Of the number of three A Burchen broome consisteth of thrée things fit for correction the twigs for the Scholemaster the staffe for the housholder and the wyth for the Magistrate Thrée properties required in a good Inkéeper to be patient as Iob prouident as Philemon and merry as Hector And other thrée in a good Chirurgian a Haukes eye a Lyons heart and a Ladies hand Of feare and loue AS the Lambe is more in dread of the Wolfe then of the 〈◊〉 and the Partredge more in feare of the Hauke then of the Eagle euen so the common people stand more in awe of the inferiour Magistrate whom they loue for feare then of the superiour Prince whom they feare for loue Of Lawe THe Lawe is a spurre to pricke forwards vnto vertue a fetter to restraine vice a rule to determine right frō wrong and is deuided into three parts ius naturale which nature teacheth lex condita which the Prince commandeth and mos antiquos which time hath brought in Of Phisicke MAn is taught to vse and not to dispise such ordinarie meanes as God hath appointed to heale his sickenesse The Lord hath created medicine of the earth sayth Iesus Syrach and he that is wise will not abhorre it Is there no Treacle nor Phisition at Giliad sayth God by the Prophet why then is not the health of my people recouered The Apostle exhorteth the Elders of the Church to annoynt the bodyes of the sicke with oyle the Samaritan powred oyle and wine into the hurts of the wounded man this was a kinde of oyle in Palestine much vsed as a thing very medicinable for many diseases In prayse of baldnesse SHedding of hayre is the end of nature insomuch as few men lyuing vntill full age becommeth not balde and the best natures sonest And like as fruites of trées come not to perfection till the leaues fall away no more is mans head stayde and setled with wisedome till it waxe bare according to the old prouerbe bush naturall more hayre than wit And as those nuts which in gathering time keepe still their huskes are knowen to be nought so those heads which in ancient eares kéepe still their hayre prooue s●eldome good And therefore amongst Painters Caruers it is an ordinarie custome to picter the Image of an euill disposed person with bushie haire and an honest man with a bald head for that the one sheweth a wanton lightnesse and the other an ancient sobernesse An olde man with a bushie head is much like an old shrub ouergrowen with mosse more brutish then humaine Of the climacterian yeares THe life of man is aptly compared to a long sicknesse wherein the 7. and 9. being creticall dayes the patient beginneth commonly eyther to amende or growe worse So from 7. to 7. and from 9. to 9. yeares most men do change their naturall complections and often their conditions but especially the 63. yeares of their age in which the 2. climats doe ioyne making 9. times 7. or 7. times 9 wherein very few do scape without eyther great danger or death Of time and place I Finde written in an old booke of what credite I knowe not that as vpon the 25. day of the moneth of March the sixt day of the wéeke and sixt houre of the day Adam was created brake the commandement the womans séed promised and he for disobedience banished out of Paradice So the same day of the moneth and houre of the day Caine slewe his brother Abell the promise was renued vnto Abraham Isaac was offered vp in sacrifice the massage by the Angell was shewed vnto the Uirgine Mary our Sauiour Christ was conceaued and suffered his passion in Galgatha the same place where Adam was buryed and that the crosse whereupon he dyed for our saluation was a plant of the same tree which bare the fruite of our condemnation And if all this were true it is worth the noting To know Easter day for euer AS the tenth day of the first moneth which is March at the coniunction of the Sunne and Moone next the Equinoctiall the Pascall Lambe was chosen out of the slocke and kept till the 14. day or full Moone so the tenth day of the first moneth being Palme sunday our Sauiour Christ entred into Ierusalem and the 14. day suffered his passion so as the next sonday after the 14. day of the Moone or full Moone in the moneth of March is alwayes Easter day Of Salutations OUr elders in times past were woont to salute young men with you are welcome those of middle age with God kéepe you and old men with God spéede you signifying that the first were comming the second remayning and the third departing Of a Lye A Lye in generall is to speake that is false with a will to deceaue and hath thrée partes a sportfull lye to delight a politike lie to profite and a pernitious lye to hurt The two first are not blamelesse but the 3. a sinne most horrible and greeuous Some doe thinke as good a lye that hurtes not as a true tale that profits not but no man may do euill that good may come thereof To helpe memorie THere is nothing better to nourish a weake memorie and sharpen a dull wit then continuall vse and exercise of reading writing and speaking Practise in althings toucheth the quicke and that makes womens tongues run so round and lawyers speake so thicke A poisie for a glasse penned merrily at the request of a Gentlewoman VEwing in this glasse the singular shape wherewith God hath garnished you aboue other creatures to his owne Image It shall be requisite with continuall trauell and labour least so excellent a worke be stayned by your negligence or misdemeanour that you be answerable as abilitie shall serue in working his will which is not in crisping and curling frisking and frounsing painting and proining to better your beauty with strange trim attyre as not content with his fashion in framing you but rather as you excell in giftes séeke to excell in grace remembring alwayes that as plainnesse putteth on so painting putteth out the Image of Christ which considered your attyre shall not be sluttish but sober not drabbish but decent not whoorish but honest not gawish but godly as beséemeth Christianitie FINIS Democritus did alwayes laugh and Heraclitus weepe at the follies of men Ruine is the end of voluptuous appetite Tim● past may soone● be repeated than recalled Prou. 10.32 Colos. 3.20 Ephe. 6.1 2. ● 1. Pet. 5.5 Prou. 6.13 Prou. 13.18.24 Eccle. 30.8.9 Deut.