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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

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

Makes them so highly prized Yet not one well of ten can tell If ere they were baptized And if not then 't is a blot Past cure of Spunge or Leather And we may sans question say The Devil was their Godfather Now to leave them he receive them Whom they most confide in Whom that that is ask Tib or Sis Or any whom next you ride in If in sooth she speaks the truth She says excuse I pray you The beast you ride where I confide Will in due time convey you A Song MIstake me not I am as cold as hot For though thine eyes betrays my heart o're night Ere morn ere morn ere morning all is right Sometimes I burn And then do I return There 's nothing so unconstant as my mind I change I change I change even as the wind Perhaps in jest I said I lov'd the best But 't was no more than what was long before I 'd vow'd I 'd vow'd I 'd vow'd to twenty more Then I prethee see I give no heart to thee For when I ne're could keep my own one day What hope what hope what hope hadst thou to stay A Song I Loved a Lass alass my folly Was full of her coy of disdaining I courted her thus what shall I sweet Molly Do for thy dear loves obtaining At length I did dally so long with my Molly That Molly for all her faining Had got such a Mountain above her Valley That Molly came home complaining The Invitation VVHy sit you here so dull You lively Lads that love The pleasure of the Plains And sport inchanting Jove My merry Muse brings other News And time invites to go Fill Nectars cup the Hare is up We come to sing so-ho My pipe is of the pure Cane of a Winter-corn By force of Cynthia's lure Transform'd into a Horn. Aurora's look hath chang'd my Crook Into a bended bow And Pan shall keep my patient sheep While here we sing so ho. Let us be like the Swains That only undergoes The pleasures of the Plains In place where Boreas blows And every night take our delight With our she-friend and so Both night and day we 'l sport and play And merrily sing So Ho. To make much of Time GAther your Rose-buds whilst you may Old time is still a flying And that same flower that smiles to day To morrow will be dying The glorious Lamp of Heaven the Sun The higher he is getting The sooner will his Race be run And nearer to his setting That age is best which is the first When youth and blood are warmer And being spent the Worst and worst Times still succeed the former Then be not coy but use your time And while you may go marry For having lost but once your prime You may for ever tarry The Prisoner VVHen Love with unconfined wings Hovers within my Gates And my divine Althea begins To whisper at the Grates When I lay tangled in her hair And fetter'd to her eye The Gods that wander in the air Know no such liberty When flowing Cups run swiftly round With no allaying thames Our careless heads with Roses round Our hearts with loyal flames When thirsty grief in wine we steep When Healths and Draughts go free Fishes that tipple in the deep Know no such liberty When like committed Linnets I With shriller throat shall sing The Sweetness Mercy Majesty And Glories of my King When I shall sing aloud how good He is how great should be ●nlarged winds that curl the floods Know no such liberty ●tone walls do not a Prison make Nor Iron bars a Cage Minds innocent and quiet take That for an Hermitage ●● I had freedom in my love And in my soul am free Angels alone that soar above Enjoy such Liberty A Song Earn'd shade of Tycho Brache who to us The Stars prophetick Language didst impart And even in life their mysteries discuss My Mistress has o'rethrown my strongest art When custom stragles from her beaten path Then accidents must needs uncertain be ●or if my Mistress smile though winter hath ●ockt up the rivers Summer's warm in me And Flora by the miracle reviv'd Doth even at her own beauty wondering stand ●ut should she frown the Northern wind arriv'd ●n midst of Summer hends his frozen band Which doth to Ice my youthful blood congeal ●et in the midst of Ice still flames my zeal The Lover I Must confess I am in love Although I thought I never should It is with one dropt from above Whom Nature made of purer mould So sweet so fair so all divine I 'de quit the world to make her mine Have you not seen the Stars retreat When Sol salutes the Hemisphere So shines the Beauty called great When fair Rosella doth appear Where she as other women are I need not court her nor despair But I could never bear a mind Willing to stoop to common faces Nor confidence enough could find To aim at one so full of graces Fortune and Nature did agree No woman should be fit for me Yet when her mind is firmly set To lend a smile to none but me Then shall I all my joys forget And smile at quondam misery He who hath such a heavenly mate May think himself most fortunate My dear Rosella make my bliss Happy by your most sweet consent Then shall I think no life like this Which brings to me so much content And you shall by this bargain win Although you loose the Fort within What life so sweet as natural love It doth expel all worldly care It makes us like the gods above And shews us truly what we are Where true love reigns there is small odds ●etwixt us mortals and the Gods Upon passionate Love NO man loves fiery passion can approve As either yielding pleasure or promotion ● like a mild and luke-warm zeal in love Although I do not like it in devotion ●esides man need not love unless he please No destiny can force mans disposition How then can any die of that disease When as himself may be his own Physician Some one perhaps in long Consumption dry'd And after falling into love may die But I dare lay my life he ne're had dy'd Had he been healthy at the heart as I. Some others rather than incur the slander Of false Apostates may true Martyrs prove But I am neither Iphis nor Leander I 'le neither hang nor drown my self for love Yet I have been a Lover by report And I have dy'd for love as others do But prais'd be Jove it was in such a sort That I reviv'd within an hour or two Thus have I lov'd thus have I liv'd till now And know no reason to repent me yet And he that any otherwise shall do His courage is no better than his wit EPIGRAMS New and Old To the Reader THou that read'st those if thou commendst them all Thou 'st too much milk if none thou 'st too much gall Another MY Book the World is Verses are the men You find as