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A02836	Quodlibets lately come ouer from New Britaniola, old Newfound-land Epigrams and other small parcels, both morall and diuine. The first foure bookes being the authors owne: the rest translated out of that excellent epigrammatist, Mr. Iohn Owen, and other rare authors: with two epistles of that excellently wittie doctor, Francis Rablais: translated out of his French at large. All of them composed and done at Harbor-Grace in Britaniola, anciently called Newfound-Land. / By R.H. sometimes Gouernour of the plantation there.	Hayman, Robert, 1578 or 9-1631?.; Owen, John, 1560?-1622. Epigrammata. Book 1-4. English. Selections.; Rabelais, François, ca. 1490-1553?; Habert, Francois, ca. 1508-ca. 1561.	1628 (1628)	STC 12974; ESTC S106081	67,153	134

and amazement bred In me that still I am astonished Yet this request I pray doe not deny Giue me good words for you haue more then I. In recompence one day I le sing a song Of your rich worth with my laste buskins on The admirer of your excellencies the short-breath'd Muse of Robert Hayman A PRAEMONITION TO ALL KINDE OF READERS of these Translations of Iohn Owens EPIGRAMS AS one into a spacious Garden led Which is with rare faire flowers well garnished Where Argus may all his eyes satisfie Centimanus all his hands occupy He will chuse some fine flowers of the best To make himselfe a Poesie at the least Or he will if such fauour may be found Intreate some Slips to set in his owne ground So fares it with me when in Owens booke At leasure times with willing eyes I looke I cannot chuse but choose some of his flowers And to translate them at my leisure howres But as 't is not for this admitted Man Manners at once to gather euery one But mildly to cull a few at a time I pray thee doe so too kinde Reader mine For as a Man may surfet on sweet meates So thou maist ouer-read these quaint conceits Some at one time some at another chuse As Maidens doe their kissing Confects vse Reade therefore these His by translation Mine As some eate Cheese a penny-waight at a time AN ENCOMIASTICK DISTICK ON MY RIGHT WORTHY AVTHOR IOHN OVVEN THe best conceits Owens conceits haue found Short sharp sweet witty vnforc'd neate profound PART OF MASTER IOHN OWENS EPIGRAMS TRANSLATED into ENGLISH THE FIRST BOOKE Epig. 2. To the Reader THou that read'st these if thou commend them all Thou 'st too much milk if none thou 'st too much gall 3 To Master Iohn Hoskins of his Booke My Booke the World is Verses are the Men You 'll finde as few good here as amongst them 8 Know thy selfe Nothing worth knowledge is in thee I trow Seeke some-where else some worthier thing to know 14 Gilberts Opinion that the Earth goes round and that the Heauens stand still Thou sai'st the Earth doth moue that 's a strange tale When thou didst write this thou wert vnder sayle 15 Physicions and Lawyers Our sicknesses breeds our Physicions health Our folly makes wise Lawyers with our wealth 16 O Times O Manners Scaliger did Times computation mend Who to correct ill manners doth intend Or thus to Scaliger Thou mended hast the bad score of old yeares Who dares take old bad manners by the eares 21 To a poore bare beggerly fie on such a Physicion Thou wert a poore bare fye on such a one But now thou art growne a Physicion Thou giuest vs physicke we with gold thee please Thou cur'st not ours but we cure thy disease 26 Cold fire If that Loue be a fire as it is said How cold is thy Loues fire my pretty Maide 27 An impious Atheists pastime I ioy in present things and present time A time will come that will be none of mine Grammarians talke oftimes past and hereafter I spend time present in pastime and laughter 28 An Atheist's Epitaph He liu'd as if he should not feele Deaths paine And died as if he would not liue againe 30 Married Alanaes complaint All day Alana rayleth at Wedlocke And says 't is an vntolerable yoake At night being pleasd shee altereth her rage And sayes that marriage is the merriest age 31 A Prophet and Poet. Of things to come these make true predication These of things present make a false relation 35 Free-will Free-will for which Christs Church is so diuided Though men it lose Wiues will not be deny'd it 39 New Rhetoricke Good arguments without Coyne will not stick To pay and not say is best Rhetorick 52 To an Atheist Each house thou seest here some one doth possesse Yet thou dost thinke the great house masterlesse 53 A trade betwixt Physicions and Patients Physicions receiue gold but giue none backe Physicke they 'll giue but none of it they 'll take Their hands write our health bills ours greaze their fist Thus one mans hand another doth assist 54 Iuris-prudentes Wise men of Law Lawyers are rightly cald wise men of Law Since to themselues they wisely wealth doe draw To the same purpose more largely thus Wise men of Law the Latines Lawyers stile And so they are fooles Clyents are the while Lawyers are wise we see by their affaires Leauing so much land to their happy heires 55 To Courtiers If good thou be at Court thou may'st grow better But I doe feare thou hardly wilt grow greater If great thou be greater thou may'st be made But to grow better is no Courtiers trade 57 A Mortall Conceit To eternize thy fame thou buildst a Tombe As if death could not eat vp such a Roome 58 A Comfort for Baldnes So young and bald take comfort then in this Thy head will ne'r bee whiter then it is 61 On old Alan Old Alan ioynes his couch to his wiues bed And thinkes himselfe thereby most sweetly laid 62 New-yeeres-gifts Some mens pride some mens basenesse Olus giues not to rich to receiue more To poore he cannot giue 'cause he is poore Quintus for gaine giues gift with long low legs And what he would haue giuen by giuing begs 63 A Caueat for Cuckolds When Pontius wish'd all Cuckolds in the Sea His wife replide First learne to swimme I pray 71 Physicions and Lawyers Physicions Lawyers by one meanes doe thriue For others harmes doe both of them relieue By sicknesse one the other by contention Both promise helpe both thriue by this pretention 73 The Bald-pate Trees haue new leaues in fields there growes new graine But thy shed haires will neuer grow againe 76 Gyants and Dwarfes Gyants and Dwarfes are men of differing grouth Dwarfes are shrunke men Gyants are men stretcht forth 80 A Sergeants case To Lawyers If a man with a wench should make a match And in stead of her should his owne wife catch Tell me if a childe borne by this deceit Be a base bastard or Legitimate 84 A begging Poet. I heare thou in thy verses praysest me It is because in mine I should praise thee 89 An old Churle What-euer of this friend I begge or borrow He puts me off and sayes You shall to morrow For this thy promise shall I fit thankes fit To morrow then thee will I thanke for it 93 Double dealing Wherefore loues Venus Mars vnlawfully Vulcan is lame in lawfull venery 94 Much haire little Wit Thy beard growes faire and large thy head grow's thinne Thou hast a light head and a heauy chinne Addition Hence 't is those light conceites thy head doth breed From thy dull heauy mouth so slow proceed 101 A dead Reckoning What death is thou dost often aske of me Come to me when I am dead I 'll tell it thee 103 To selfe applying and fault-finding Zoilus When I finde fault at faults thou carp'st at me It may be therein thou think'st I meane

giu'n eyes to you Thou canst at once little of this earth see But with one turne halfe Heau'n obseru'd may bee Since Heau'n is louely why lou'st thou Earth rather Wantons doe loue their Mam more then the father 188 Cor vnum via vna To King Iames the first King of Great Brittaine Two Scepters in thy two hands thou dost hold Thy Subiects languages are iust foure-fold Though Brittaine folke in tongues deuided bee Yet all their hearts vnited are in thee The Diuell it was that first deuided hearts Speach God diuided into many parts 189 A King and a Prophet A King out of his Countrey hath no place A Prophet in his Country hath no grace 190 Vertues Attendance These two like Genij follow Vertue still A good one and a bad Glory Ill-will 192 To a foolish inquisitiue vaine prattler Many fond questions thou dost aske of me To all I answer little vnto thee 'T is not because thy questioning is much But because thy fond questions are such 193 Sleepe is the image of Death When I doe sleep I seeme as I were dead Yet no part of my life 's more sweetned Therefore 't were strange that death should bitter be Since sleep deaths image is so sweet to me 194 How worldly men range their cares First we send for the Lawyer in all haste For our first care is to care for our wealth Next the Physicion with request is graste The second care is to care for our health Diuines that should be first may come at leasure If vnbid they come they may goe at pleasure 206 A Lawyers life To plead thy Clyents cause and please thy wife Little for thy selfe thou dost spend thy life Addition In little quietnesse but in much strife 207 Preachers and Players Preachers like Heraclite mourne for our sinne Prayers like Democrite at our faults grinne One alwaies laughs the other mournes alwaies One tells our faults the other our sinnes wayes 215 Schoole-boyes study When I was young I was a studying boy My study was when 't would be playing Day 216 Euery thing is as it takes If Archy should one foolishly aduise And it speed well he shall be iudged wise If wise aduice should come to an ill passe Though Cato's 't were he should be iudg'd an asse 217 How to handle griefe Grieue onely for those griefes which now thou hast T is too late for to grieue griefes that are past To grieue for griefes to come 't will too long last 223 The Poet of his Maecenas Not words for words good coyne he me affords Maecenas to his Poet. Hauing no coyne for coyne thou coynest words 225 Blind Homer Whe'r it be true that men doe write of thee That thou ne'r saw'st I 'm sure thy writings see 227 To goe about worse then the Goute Thou hast two diffring griefes I vnderstand One in thy feet th' other in thy wiues hand For when thy feet are fett'red with the goute Thy wiues sore nimble hand ferkes thee about 235 Pride is womans Colloquintida Learned neate young faire modest and bening Wert thou not proud thou wert a pretty thing 24 Of King Brute To Master Camden Bookes may be burnt and monuments decay My lines may dye and so in time thine may Yet whil'st some of the Brittaine blood shall liue The story of King Brute some will beleeue 246 To a couetous Carle Wealth thou hast scrap'd vp for a thousand yeares A hundred yeares is more then thou canst liue Yet to scrape vp more wealth thou bendst thy cares And thinkst a short life will long comfort giue Thou say'st If I liue long I shall be rich Liue I long I must dye should bee thy speach 247 Death and life are neere Neighbours One Natures skreene Death and life hang so neere As doth the muddy Earth to waters cleere Of lifes white Death blacke Nature makes one robe Euen as the Earth and Water makes one Globe 248 Moores Eutopia and Mercurius Brittanicus Moore shew'd the best the worst world 's shew'd by thee Thou shew'st what is and he shewes what should be 259. Vide ad Cor. vers HOPE FAITH CHARITY Epist. 1. cap. 13.8 13. We haue three ladders to helpe vs to heau'n One hath foure steps one fiue and one hath seu'n Hope reacheth to the Moone Faith to the Sunne But Charity doth reach vp to Gods Throne Addition Hope as the Moone is alwaies variable Faith as the Sunne more constant yet vnstable When both these with the World shall be consum'd Loue into endlesse ioyes shall be assum'd 249 Of himselfe Some men doe say I am a Poet no way They doe say true because the truth I say 254 The nullity of our Lawes How many lawes are made or rather none Not kept or not made we may count all one That former lawes be kept if an Act were That would be kept as all the others are 257 Besides women and children In holy Bible it is somewhere read Women and children were not reckoned And by the Ciuill and the Common Law Womens and childrens gifts are worth a straw VVomen and children are exempt from warre VVomen and children long-side coates doe weare And on the chins neither of them haue haire VVomen and children shead teares with much ease Faire words and toyes women and children please And last of Loue and Dallyance we may say Venus a VVoman was Cupid a Boy Addition A disparison betweene these Children fondly blab truth and fooles their brothers VVomen haue learn'd more wisdome from their mothers 258 Of those that make the Scripture a Nose of Waxe Doth holy Writ promise vs any good 'T is easily beleeu'd and vnderstood Doth it require ought or reprooue our sinne 'T is a hard speech wee haue no faith therein 262 The Harpe and Harrow of the Court An enuious and a flattering knaue These agree not though in one place they dwell Momus of none Gnatho of all speakes well 263 The foure efficient causes of man What is mans forme Onely a garish toy What is his matter Frailty and annoy ●hough for this cause we may these two neglect Making and finall cause we must respect 64 Deaths sweet and sowre To those that haue their liues in much mirth spent Death's sadnes is to sad men merriment Or thus To those that liue in sinne Death is good night Good morrow 't is to those that liue vpright 266 Death and life One way we liue Death many wayes is had All 's for the best Death is good life is bad 267 An old decrepit man A Builder Old and weake thou build'st many a faire roome What build'st thou now A house or else a Tombe 269 An Envious mans Charity The dead thou spar'st the liuing thou dost bite Yet rather then I 'd dye I 'le beare thy spite 273 Great Brittaine vnited euerlastingly As in beginning 't was is now agen Euer shall be till this world ends Amen FINIS An excellent Anagram on this excellent Poets name with the verses annexed translated Iohannes Audoenus

Ad annos Noë vives ALthough that this cannot be said of you Yet of your booke this Anagram is true D. Du Tr. Med. This of thee and thy booke auerd may be Thou mak'st thy booke liue and thy booke makes thee Iohn Rosse I.C. D. Du Med. his Latine Distick to the Readers translated Art thou a Clerke or Lay-man Reade thou these They will both profit you and you both please One of mine owne to the same purpose Art thou a merry man or art thou sad To sute you both fit stuffe may hence be had Praise-worthy verses of Learned Mistris Iane Owens of Oxford in praise of my Iohn Owen translated out of her Latine It was and is Poets quaint property To carpe at men and womens vanity Yet this I iudge Thy salt lines merit it Both men and women will commend thy wit To the same learned Woman whose vertues I reuerence I dedicate this Encomiastick I 'd rather haue thy praises on my side Then any Womans I doe know beside Thy wit and iudgement is more iust and able Then many miriads of the vnlearned rabble FINIS SEVERALL SENTENTIOVS EPIGRAMS AND WITTY SAYINGS OVT of sundry Authors both Ancient and Moderne TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH AT HARBOR-Grace in Bristols-Hope in Brittaniola Anciently called New-found-land By R. H. PAX OPVLENTIAM SAPIENTIA PACEM FK LONDON Printed by Felix Kyngston for Roger Michell and are to be sold at the Buls-head in Pauls Church-yard 1628. A WEAKE APOLOGIE FOR MY WEAKENESSE in these following Translations WE think it no strang thing nor do we laugh To see an old weake man walke with a staffe I that could with strong legs runne a large fit Must now with short turnes rest on others wit TRANSLATIONS OVT OF SEVERALL AVTHORS Beauties Excellencie VErtue to all complections giueth Grace But Vertue graced is by a good face The Deuils hospitality Satan keepes open house though sorry cheere His blacke-wicket stands open all the yeere A Rule for periured lecherous Votaries If that against your Oathes you must needs doe To 't closely then that none may sweare 't was you Cares Birth In yonger yeeres black melancholy Cares Breeds with hard throwes hoare white abortiue haires A scuruy comfort It is a comfort though a scuruy one To haue companions in affliction Womens leuity What 's lighter then the wind Thunder you know What 's lighter then that cracke Lightning I trow What 's lighter then that flame Why sure a Woman What 's lighter now then that Nay that knowes no man To answer him who wrought this in defence of those women who can well enough defend themselues Good wiues I thinke the man that made this Iest Ne'r felt the weight of your words nor your fist Dangerous Weapons There are not kild so many by the sword As by the throat by meate drinke and the cord A merry Mate A merry Way-mate that can tale and skoch With a tyr'd horse is better then a C'roach Patience prouoked If doubled wrongs inflame cold Patience blood Her mildnesse will conuert to a mad mood Womens properties To weepe oft still to flatter sometimes spin Are properties women excell men in To this women may answer We weepe for pittie and we speake men faire And of their houshold thrift we haue great care Yet enuious men our credits would impaire Froward nature Deny a thing fond men the more will craue it Deny a woman and shee 'l cry or haue it In defence of these soft Creatures Alas good Creatures teares are all their Armes To beat backe griefe and to reuenge their harmes Miserable want Luxurious men may want particulars But misers all things want except their cares Impatible wrong Those that wrong other men beyond all measure Will take wrongs done to them in great displeasure Law and Fortunes difference Wise Law corrects those that commit offence Blind giddie Fortune plagueth innocence A miserable Comforter He that can helpe his friend but with his breath Is in the case of him he comforteth A Rule for Trauellers Being at Rome I hold it good discretion In manners and in clothes to vse their fashion And when that thou art any other-where 'T is fit to vse the fashion thou find'st there A Riddle My Mother got me I beget my Mother Alternately thus we beget each other Womens Teares When women weepe in their dissembling Art Their teares are sawce to their malicious heart I answer for women He that wrote this was sure some sawcie Iacke Against your Sex malice he did not lacke Necessity Necessity hath no law no not any Yet shee the Mother is to a great many Doubly-guilty He that commits a shamefull hainous fact Is doubly-guilty by that single act Necessary Restitution Thy sinnes be sure will on thy backe remaine Till thy ill-got goods thou giue backe againe Ranke couetousnesse The ranke desire of money growes alwayes Faster then money's coyned now adayes Natures frailtie I see and doe allow the better way Yet still I know not how I goe astray Miserable misery of miseries Three times vnhappy is that man at least To whom milde Mercie 's an vnwelcome guest Innocencies Comfort For a good cause to dye is honest shame Although a halter should procure the same Preachers principall properties That Preacher with a liuely voyce doth preach That with his life as well as voyce doth teach How to end well He surely hath his businesse halfe well done Who hath at first his bus'nesse well begun On a pretty Virgins Virginall Posie Musicke is a sad minds Physicion If a faire maide be the Musicion Blind Ignorance Blinder then Cupid is he in desire In whom blind ignorance puts out the fire Womens Credit A woman is not to be credited If you will credit me though shee be dead That women be not angry with me nor my Author Mine Author makes a man speake this in snuffe Himselfe was wise he knew you well enough Teares Vanity Our outward Teares may show our inward woes They are a poore reuenge against our foes Fortunes Flowers Whil'st wealth doth last great store of friends thou hast If thou it waste thou soone may'st tell the last Armour against lust If thou from idle thoughts canst guard thy heart Thou mak'st it Musket-proofe 'gainst Cupids dart Anger The sting-taild small Muscheeto hath his spleene The busie Ant sometimes is angry seene A Builders Humor He buildeth vp what he threw to the ground And changeth former foure-squares into round Truths and flatteries effects Flattery gets Friends and Truth gets Enemies Soft and proud fooles this Adage verifies Exemplified Flatter an easie foole on you he 'll doate Tell a proud foole his faults hee 'll cut your throat Refractory nature Dull Oxen long