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A05326	A helpe to discourse. Or, A miscelany of merriment Consisting of wittie, philosophical and astronomicall questions and answers. As also, of epigrams, epitaphs, riddles, and iests. Together with the countrymans counsellour, next his yearely oracle or prognostication to consult with. Contayning diuers necessary rules and obseruations of much vse and consequence being knowne. By W.B. and E.P.	Basse, William, d. ca. 1653, attributed name.; Phillips, Edward, 1630-1696?, attributed name.; Pond, Edward, d. 1629, attributed name.	1619 (1619)	STC 1547; ESTC S117185	70,959	300

vpon the earth But man enioyes all these with his head hee lookes vp to Heauen with his minde he lookes into Heauen with his feete hee walkes vpon the earth his armes keepe the ayre as the bird flyes with his eyes hee contemplateth heauen and earth and all sublunarie things hee hath an essence as other bodies produceth his seede as Plants his bones are like stones his blood like the springs in the channels of the earth his hayre like the grasse the ornament of the earth c. hee liues as a Plant flourisheth as a Tree for a man is a tree turned vpward his feete are like the boughes his head like the roote Beside some creatures are onely as Starres some are and liue as Plants some are liue and haue sense as Beasts some vnderstanding as Angels all these concurre in man Est viuit sentit intelligit Q. What three things are those that hee which often remembers shall seldome doe amisse A. That aboue there is an Eare that heares all an Eye that beholds all a Booke wherein all our offences are written Whereunto may likewise bee annexed as a second memento and not inferiour to the first being S. Anselmes obseruation vpon the last day Where at thy right hand shall thy sinnes be accusing At thy left hand infinite Diuels expecting Vnder thee the furnace of hell buruing Aboue thee an angry Iudge Within thee thy conscience tormenting Without thee the world flaming Where only the iust shall be saued Whence to flie it wil be impossible To continue still intollerable Therefore while time is preuent that that in time will bee for as one saith If it bee not preuented it will bee repented Q. Who was hee that neuer laughed but sometimes wept as we reade in the Scriptures A. Christ of whom we read that he three times wept 1. When Lazarus was dead 2. Ouer Ierusalem 3. Vpon the Crosse when he deliuered vp his spirit with cryes and teares Q. There bee foure duties wee chiefly we and among all other are especially bound to pay and which be they Debemus Deo timorem Patriae amorem Parentibus honorem Proximo fauorem To God feare To our Country Loue. To our Parents Honour To our Neighbour fauour A Rule for our Life So Learne as if Thou shouldst liue alwayes so Liue as if Thou shouldst die to morow Suspice coelum despice mundum respice finem Looke vp to heauen despise the world respect thine end Q. There are three especially vnhappy in the Law of the Lord and who are those A. 1. He that knowes teacheth not 2. He that teacheth and doth not 3. He that is ignorant and yet learneth not Q. Was there any writing before the floud preserued notwithstanding the Deluge after it A. T is answered We haue no writing before the flo●d yet S. Iude doth somewhat insinuate of the writing of Henoch and Iosephus and others write that he erected two pillars the one of bricke and the other of stone wherein he wrote of the twofold destruction of the world the one by water the other by fire which by Tradition was preserued to the dayes of the Apos●les Q. What was the sentence according to the opinions of the learned that Christ wrote with his finger in the dust of the pauement of the Temple A. Some thinke it was the same that he spake Hee that is innocent let him throw the first stone at her others thinke it was this Festucam in oculo cernis trabem in tuo non vides Thou seest the mote in thy brothers eye but not the beame in thine owne Q. What Booke did Samuel write besides those two in Scripture that beare his name A. A Booke of the office and institution of a King Q. What Bookes did Salomon write beside those extant in Canonicall writ A. Salomon wrote three thousand Parables and fiue thousand songs besides that ingens opus of the nature ofal Herbes Trees and Plants from the Cedar to the Hyssop vpon the wall al destroyed by the Babylonians at the destruction of the Temple Q. Whether God created hurtfull creatures as Scorpions Serpents and such like A. It is answered there are some that seeme euill vnto vs which yet are not simply euill of themselues for no substance is euill of it selfe and the Scripture teacheth vs that Serpents were created among other creatures yet God pronounceth that all were good but that some creatures are now hurtfull to man that is not to be attributed to the first creation but to the second after the lapse or fall of man who if he had persisted in his dutie to God no creature should haue beene offensiue vnto him but ouer them he should haue borne a willing subiection For God made nothing euill neither doth he make sicknesse barrenesse lamenesse or the like but they rather haue deficient then efficient causes as the want of health his good creature is the cause of sicknes the withdrawing of light the interposition of darkenes and so of the like Q. What name was that among the Iewes so highly reuerenced that it was only lawfull for the Priests to name it and that but at the solemne festiuals A. The name Iehouah a word consisting but of seuen letters and yet of al the fiue vowels according to this verse Quinque simul iunctis constas vocabilus vna Dictio est magno maius in orbe nihil Fiue vowels ioynd together make a name In Heauen or Earth none greater then the same Q. What of all other are held to bee things of the greatest difficultie in Scripture to beleeue and of the greatest opposition to sence to conceiue A. Some thinke the creation of the world some the conseruation thereof and all creatures therein some the Incarnation of the Sonne of God others the resurrection of the flesh Besides these there are some that thinke Noes Arke and the vnion and preseruation of so many diuers creatures in it so many moneths fed ordered and at last safely deliuered out Q. In how many chapters doth consist the Canon of the old Testament A. In 777. The Iewish Rabbins haue collected to bee in the Bookes of the Law verses 5845. In the Prophets 9294. In Haggai 8064. In the Bookes of Apocripha chap. 173. In the new Testament chap. 260. Malachy which was the last of the Prophets stands as the Porch betweene the Old and New Testament whereat as Tertullian saith Iudaisme ends and Christianitie begins Q. Where was God before hee made the world A. Saint Austin notes this as vain curiositie to enquire as it is to demaund what he did before hee made the same and yet to giue the curious some satisfaction to the first he answers that God dwelt in himselfe at himselfe and was God to himselfe and for the second he was not idle in that he chose vs before the world and purposed in himselfe the creation of all things But hee that will farther busie himselfe to prie into this Arke how all things could

are the three first members formed in the wombe after conception A. The heart the braine and the liuer the three chiefe members of life Q. Which is the last made A. The eye The interpretation of the mind The last member formed in the wombe and the first that loseth his motion in death for in that exigent the spirits of the sight betake themselues to the braine as to their castle of refuge a sure token of death Q. When a man dies which is the last part of him that stirres and which of a woman A. To answere merily and not altogether impertinently t is said the last part of a man that stirs is his heart but of a woman her tongue Q. A wise man said that from the most vildest creatures on the earth iust matter might be had whereby to glorifie God to this one answered what tak'st thou from the Serpent whereby to glorifie him A. To praise him that he made me not such a one To which purpose is here annexed a story of one who seeing a Toade lie in the way fell a weeping two Bishops comming by inquired his reason who answered that the sight of that vgly and loathsome creature had admonished him of his ingratitude to God that had neuer giuen him thankes for the excellency of his creation beeing made after his owne Image when hee being but as clay in the Potters hands it was in his power to haue made him a vessell of dishonor yea euen the basest and deformed such a one as that Toade Q. What is the most beautifull thing in the world A. One answered the Sunne but another replyed that blinde men saw not that and therefore hee concluded that Vertue was much more resplen dent which euen the blind might perceiue perfectly Q. What is the strongest of all things A. One answered Wine another a King a third a Woman and all these are very powerfull but truth is the strongest of all which ouercomes all things Q. Who is the greatest opposer of this Truth A. One answered the Pope who as Baleus recites is so opposite that commonly whatsoeuer he praise● is worthy of disprayse for whatsoeuer hee thinkes is vaine whatsoeuer he speakes is false whatsoeuer he dislikes is good whatsoeuer hee approoues is euill and whatsoeuer he extols infamous Q. What seate is ordained for Popes after this life A. Heauen they continually sell and daily offer to sale and therefore Hell is their place in reuersion according to the Poet Vendidit coelum Romanus Astra sacerdos Ad Stigias igitur cogiturire domos Q. What part of speech is Papa for the Pope A. Part of a particip●e because hee partakes part from the Clergy part from the Laity and part from both without Mo●d or ●e●se Papa nec D●us Nec Angelus Nec Homo● quid tunc the Pope is neither God Angel nor Man what then Diabolus Q. VVho are those that pray for all Defend all Feed all Deuoure all A. In an old picture I found it thus written The Pope with his Clergy saies I pray for you all Caesar with his Electors I defend you all The Clown with his sack of Corne I nourish you all at last comes Death and sayes I deuoure you all Q. VVhat little fish is that in the Sea that hath the greatest strength A. The Rhemora a little fish of halfe a foot long which but by fastening vpon it will stay a Ship vnder sayle with winde and tide Q. What thing is a Lyon most afrayde of A. The crowing of a Cocke and the noyse of a Cartwheele Q. What difference of Daies is there of the Christians the Turks and the Iewes Sabbaoth A. The Christians keepe their Sabbaoth on Sunday The Iewes on the Saturday and the Turkes on the Friday in scorne of Christ that was that day crucified Q. What is death very fitly resembled vnto A. To a woman or a shadow for seeke it and it flies you flie it and it seekes you so a Woman according to the Poet. Follow a shadow it still flies you Seeme to flie it will pursue you So court a woman shee denies you Let her alone she will court you Q. What is that which of running becomes staid of soft becomes hard of weake becomes strong and of that which is infi●it becomes but one It is answered Ice Q. Whether was Christ all euer Ice A. It is answered that those waters which are congealed with a continuall and dayly cold as by the space of ten or twentie yeares are called Christall by reason of their transparencie and are for the most part found vpon the Alpine Mountaines eleuated against the face of the North where they become so hard that sc●rce they euer after yeeld to the hammer Q. What liquor of all other soonest extinguisheth the fire A. Vineger for the exceeding piercing coldnesse and eagernesse it hath Q What is the strongest of all things in the world A. Thal. Mill. answered Fate another Death because it ouercomes all things Q. How many letters are there in the holy tongue A. As many as there are bookes in the old Testament of which one thus further obserues that as 22. letters forme our voyce so 22. bookes containe our faith Q. VVhat comparison is there betweene Prophets and Poets A. Thus much according to the old verse Illi de rebus praedicere vera futuris Hi de perteritis dicere falsa solent Englished Of things to come these truely make vs know What the other of things past doth falsly show Q. VVho were those that were seene to eate after their deaths A. Christ Lazarus the daughter of Iayrus and others Q. Vpon what kind of persons according to Diogenes opinion are not benefits to be bestowed A. 1 N●t vpon olde men because they li●e not to require them 2 Vpon children because they forget them 3 Vpon dishonest folkes because they will neuer require them Q. VVho are those that see many things farre off but little neere at hand A. Old men blind in the present-tense but for the most part quicke-sighted in the preterimperfect tense Q How comes it that the Husband seekes the wife and not the contrary the wife the Husband A. Because the m●n seekes that which he lost that is his ri● which was taken from him in the forming of Woman out of his side and therefore when a man marries a wife what doth hee but fetch backe the rib which hee first lost Q. What is the choosing of wines fitly compared vnto A. Sir Tho. More was wont to say to the plucking by casualty Eeles out of a Bagge wherein for euerie Eele are twenty Snakes Q. What is the deerest losse of all others A. The losse of time which cannot bee recouered of which one thus complaines Damna fleorerum sed plus fleo Damna dierum Quisque potest rebus succurere nemꝰ diebus Thus Englished The losse of wealth I much lament But more what time decaies For wealth may be regain'd that 's spent But

and cranies of the earth and violently rushing out and the earth suddenly closing vp againe causeth the shaking or earthquake which is generally a fore-runner of warre Of Thunder and Lightning WHen an Exhalation hot and dry mixt with moysture is attracted into the middle Region and there inclosed in the body of a cloud now these two contraries thus included in one place together fall at variance and cannot bee reconciled but breake the prison wherein they are pent the violent out-rushing whereof maketh a noyse which wee call thunder and the fire lightning being both borne at one instant although the lightning bee the first perceiued in regard of the quicknesse of the eye before the eare Of the strange effects of Lightning THat which is dry burneth not at all that wich is moyst burneth not likewise but blasts and altereth the colour but that which is cleare is of a strange operation for it draweth vessels dry without hurting the Caske melteth the siluer without hurting the bagge breaketh the bones and hurteth not the skinne killeth the childe in the wombe without hurt to the mother It hurteth not the Law●ell tree entreth not aboue a yard into the earth such as are shadowed with the skins of Seales Sea calue● and the Eagle are safe as Pliny stories it The Auntient Aegyptians which were the first and best Astronomers haue obserued certaine yeares in a mans life to bee verie dangerous and these they name Clymacterical or stayry yeares Now a Clymactericall yeare is euery seuenth yeare of a mans life the reason is because then the course of the Planets returne to Saturne who most commonly is ●n enemy to our good and as the Moone which is the nearest and next Planet vnto vs and swiftest of course of all other passeth almost euerie seuenth day into the contrary signe of the same qualitie from whence shee came forth and so by that meanes bringeth in the Criticall dayes so Saturne which is the Planet furthest from vs and slowest of course for hee resteth in one signe so many yeares as the Moone doth dayes bringeth in likewise these Clymactericall yeares and causeth sundry mutations to follow hence it is that in the seuenth yeare children doe cast and renue their teeth Hereafter followeth certaine Clymactericall and dangerous yeares of a Mans life TThe 49. yeare composed of seuen times seuen dangerous 56. yeare to men especially borne in the night 63. yeares to those borne in the day time by reason of the drynesse of Mercurie and Venus Whereunto Octavius the Emperor seemeth to con●ent whereto this effect hee writeth to his Nephew to reioyce with him hauing passed ouer that deadly yeare enemy to old age 63 in which number the 7 and 9 do concurre as Heffman to that purpose more largely in his Booke De diebus an●nis Criticis reciteth The Criticall Dayes of a Mans life being collected throughout e●erie mo●eth are obserued these following 1 and 7 of Ianuary 2 and 4 of Frebruary 1 and 4 of March. 8 and 10 of Aprill 3 and 7 of May 10 and 15 of Iune 10 and 13 of Iuly 1 and 2 of August 3 and 30 of September 3 and ●0 of October 3 and 5 of Nouember 7 and 10 of December There are likewise in the year●more especially to be obserued 3 dangerous Mundayes to begin any businesse fall sicke or vndertake any iourney First Munday in Aprill which day Caine was borne and his brother Abel slaine Second Munday in August which day Sodom and Gommorrah were destroyed 31 Of December which day Iudas was borne that betrayed Christ. Of the 4. humors in mans body and how they raigne in their courses and first What a Humor is A Humour is a Distillation of a moyst and running body into which by the Limbecke of the liuer the meates are conuerted and diffused through the veynes and Alleys of the same for the better nourishmeut therof and are thus according to Lemnius described in his Booke De quatuor Complectionibus 1 Sanguine humor The bloud or sanguine humour is moyst and ruddy and hot the principall seate or cesterne thereof is the Liuer or Amwell head that watereth the whole Citie or body of man out of which issue forth the vitall spirits like vnto small and gentle winds that arise out of riuers and fountaines 2 Flegmaticke Humour The Phlegmaticke humour is of colour white and brackish and like vnto drops of fat his seate is chiefly in the kidneyes which separate to themselues the water from the bloud diuiding the bloud into the veines and expelling the water into vrine 3 Choller It is hote and fiery and to the taste bitter● like vnto Herbgrace or Rue and it serueth not onely to clense the guts of filth but also to califie the Liuer and to preserue the blood from putrifaction 4. Melancholy The Melancholy Humor is blacke and earthly resembling the lees of blood and hath his seate in the splene of which one thus writeth The Sanguine causeth cheerefulnes The Melancholy despaire The Collericke is churlish The Phlegmaticke is faire Euery one of these Humours raigne 6. howers blood is predominant from 9 of the clocke at night till 3 of the morning Choller from 3 of the clocke in the morning till nine of the same day Melancholly from nine till three in the afternoone and Phlegme from three in the afternoone till nine at night Also bloud hath his dominion in the Spring Choller in the Summer Melancholy in Autumne and Phlegm in Winter as Lemnius thus further in his sayd Booke testifieth Hereunto are annexed certaine verses describing the person and qualitie of that childe of Chase or Lady PECVNIA written long since by that Gentleman of quality I.T. and as something pertinent to our purpose hereinto inserted SHee is a Lady of most matchlesse carriage Wedded to none though saught of all in marriage Shee may be kistt yet neither washt nar clipt And if you wooe not warie soone ore-slipt Shee may belong and yet bee honest too To many Marchants spight they all cā do Who ere atchieues her speake her nore so fayre She le not stay long before she take the aire She le stay with no poore man her states so great A rich man may her for a time entreate Shee goes in cloth of siluer cloth of golde Off●uer all worths and values manif●lde But whē she goes in golden robes best d●●bt Then shee 's suspected most to be most light Shee needs no Physicke to recouer health For she 's still currant as rich in wel●h Some Irish Lady borne we may suppose Because shee runs so fast and neuer goes If shee be wrong'd in name and ill abide it Of all men Iustice Touchstone must decide it Shee that thus does and all doe thus to gaine her Being so atchieu'd shee is but slipperie bolde And will be gone vnlesse by force you straine her Changing her humour to another mould By pence and halfe pence and such little crummes Which of themselues so