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A02909	A Helpe to memory and discourse with table- talke as musicke to a banquet of wine : being a compendium of witty, and vsefull propositions, problemes, and sentences / extracted from the larger volumes of physicians, philosophers, orators and poets, distilled in their assiduous and learned obseruations, and which for method, manner, and referent handling may be fitly tearmed, A Second misselany, or helpe to discourse.	Basse, William, d. ca. 1653.; Phillips, E.	1630 (1630)	STC 13051.3; ESTC S3795	55,194	175

as by chaine shot whole rankes doe die He is the Tyrant-Pike our hearts the Fry His Abiuration Hence all the fond delights As short as are the nights Wherein loue spends his folly Ther 's naught in this world sweet If men were wise to see 't But melancholy Hence Welcome folded armes and fixed eyes A sight that piercing mortifies A looke that fastned to the ground A tongue chain'd vp without a sound Fountaine heads and pathlesse groues Places which pale passion loues Moone-light walkes when all the fowles Are warmely hous'd saue Bats and Owles A Panting Bell a midnight grone These are the sounds to feed vpon Then stretch our bones in some close gloomy vally There 's nothing dainty sweet saue melancholy The Husbands complaint I tooke a wife I lou'd her deare Her loue to me was due Yet she was false O who would thinke A wife should proue vntrue Thus you poore birds that hony make From many a seuerall flower Not make it for your selues but them That you and it deuoure The vnbounded louer My choyce of women I enioy Of them what I desire My children eat not yet my bread Nor warme them by my fire So you poore birds that make your nests In right they are your due For others yet you hatch your young They 'r not enioy'd by you Q. Which was the most deadly meeting that euer was A. Eue and the Serpents meeting wrought our sinne Would th' one had deafe or th' other dumbe had bin Or as another Eue and the Serpents meeting wrought our woe Would they had neuer met or parlied so So great a losse vpon mankind did fall One woman at one blow then kild vs all And singly one by one they kill vs still Partly against and partly with our will Our eyes thus dim'd our vnderstanding blinde Wee kill our selues to propagate our kind Q. Of how many genders doe women consist of A. Of three Genders all of the Foeminine many of the Doubtfull for as the saying is Long absence from a wife though chaste if faire Doth fil a iealous husbands head with care And some there are of the Common and those are the common subiects of misery to themselues and ruine to other and ioyne with sicknesse to out-shuffle health Q. Which is the fittest season for marriage A. Marry in thy youth for it is in marriage as it is in gathering of flowers where for the most part we delight in the bud and leaue the full blowne to seed Yet a learned man in this kingdome was wont to say Wiues are young mens Mistrisses Companions for middle age and olde mens Nurses so that a man may haue a quarrell to marry when hee will Old Haywood was wont to say He that marries a widdow is like to him that buyes a Sute in Long-lane where he shall hardly finde any but they are turned or drest or old or rotten or bad linings like to a cunning widdowes dissembling chests hee further thus describes a woman Aut amat aut odit mulier nil tertium Q. What is the greatest comfort or addition of happinesse in this world A. A sure friend and yet in that this is the misery that he cannot know him to be his friend without being in misery and as it is vulgarly said He is happy that findes a true friend in aduersity but he is happier that findes not aduersity wherein to try a true friend As saith another It is good to haue friends but naught to need them which is agreeable to that which the Physician wrote at the end of his Rules Now you our Physicke lines that friendly read God grant that Physicke you may neuer need To which another added Who takes his diet by the Doctors skill Shall eat no meat that 's good drinke drinke b●●'s ill Q. Whether it is better to dream vpon dreams that are good or bad A. Whilst we breathe waking we liue all in one common world but at night in our dreames we goe euery one into a seuerall Region and in these my visitations I desire rather my dreames should bee bad then good for if my dreames bee good I grieue whē I wake that they were dreams but if euill I reioyce that they were not truths but dreames To this purpose a poore man that had dreamed the night before that he was as rich as Croesu● and that he had abundance of gold and treasure met a great Lord the next day following and besought him for something saying If his dreame that he dreamed last night had been true he had not needed to aske a reward for I dreamed that I was a King This Lord replied vnto him It had beene good for thee if thou haddest neuer waked for it is better to be a King in a dreame then a begger awake A great Lord of great stomacke sharpely in the fury thereof that sought to giue satisfaction to his belly and lose no time so eagerly slasht in the cutting vp of a Capon that he cut off a pi 〈…〉 f his finger whereupon it was repo 〈…〉 hat this gluttonous Lord had at one b 〈…〉 ft his finger and his stomacke No worse ●ewes quoth the hearers but if a poore man finde it and so cherish it it will vndoe him Q. Whether is it of a certaine or not that is vulgarly reported that when we are talked of abroad by friends or others our eares tingle and glow and whether may this be thought the reason thereof A. Nothing lesse there is in man or woman a certaine flushing of blood and heat which naturally runnes thorow the body and is sometimes more inward and sometimes more outward as the body doth need which falling into the Cheekes or Eares of a sudden by the motion of the body and her naturall heat doth extraordinarily warm those parts which some though vnwisely doe attribute to this first cause Q. What is that onely which hath an audible voyce but not a visible body and what the contrary which presents the shape of a body but without any sound of voyce A. Eccho and the Looking-glasse Instruction for Bel●efe and Action Twice 6 beleeue bu 〈…〉 ein doe not rest Ten things performe ●●oue all things the best Thy wants and duties howsoere they rise In 7. petitions thou maist all comprise To these adde loue and so thou maist ascēd Higher then Faith or Hope that here doe end Q. There are foure things doe what they list and are vnreprou●d and what are they A. The winde bloweth where it lists a woman talkes and does what shee list a traueller lyes what wonders he lists and a Wise-man of all belieues what he lists Q. Whether is it of a truth or not that is v●●gularly or are they Popish Fables that m●n● Spirits walke after their deaths for treasure 〈◊〉 for murders committed or the like A. They are not truths for after death as Diuinity will tell vs the soule goes either to ioy or paine from whence there is no recession as Abraham

for those that want or Braine or wit The Hennes braine doth augment both that and it And in her body she the egge doth breed The yolke whereof turnes to much blood and seed Likewise the vapour and decoction of these Herbes infused into the eare through some Tunnell much comforteth the brain that is to say of Nigella Romana the flowers of Rosemary and Cardnus Benedictus and these not onely comfort the braine but also sharpen the wit exhilarate the mind and procure healthfull sleepe The washing of the feet in warme water once a moneth and throughly boyled wherein hath beene decocted Camomill the leaues of Lawrell and the like After meat abstaine one houre from all ●mmoderate labour either of minde or body as after supper some reasonable time from sleepe for to fleepe vpon a full stomacke much dulleth the braine as it indangereth the body which some say is thereby exposed to as much as to serue in the face of an enemy When thou goest to thy bed shut the windowes of thy chamber to exclude the winde and draw close the curtaines to shut out the Moone-light which is very offensiue and hurtfull to the braine especially of those that sleepe much more then of those that wake Afterwards in thy lying downe first turne thee vpon thy right side when thou awakest again vpon thy left side that thy blood and digestion may the better replenish thy body euer practising the memory to record and repeat things receiued in the Euening the Morning following for by want of practice the retentiue faculty becomes dull and forgetfull as the Verse to this purpose seemes to insinuate Saepe recordari medicamen fortius omni Solus et artificem qui facit vsus erit Englished T is vse practice that becomes each 〈◊〉 For that makes perfect what neglect 〈◊〉 kill Neither desire superficially to read man● things but rather well to vnderstand those few that thou doest for euen as it little auaileth the stomack to haue receiued much meate except it bee thence disgested into nutriment to the body so doth such reading bring as little profit to the minde Signes to iudge of the Debility and Constitution of euery Braine with some aduice for remedy of the ill disposition thereof THe Debility of each weake memory ariseth out of one of these foure causes that is to say either out of the too much heat of the braine or too much cold or too much moisture or too much drinesse for too much heat dries vp the Spirits too much cold hinders their operation and motion in the cauerne of the brain too much driness● the reception of formes and too muc● moisture drownes them vp the signes whereof are thus perceiued 1. If the braine be ouer-hot you shall perceiue an extraordinary heat in the head by the touching of it and the parts about the head wil be hot and red as likewise the eyes very nimble in turning the hayres quickly growing and fast increasing 2. But if ouer-cold the head expresseth it by his coldnesse in the face scarce appeares any rednesse the turning of the eyes are slow and weake the pulse and breathing very deliberate the hayres long a growing the head neuer offended with any hot cause such are for the most part sleepy fearefull slothfull slow to anger and dull of memory cold in their desire to women and weak of sense 3. Those of a moyst braine are for the most part hairy and such as are neuer troubled with baldnesse they smell slowly but sleepe soundly and are seldome troubled with dreames 4. But if the braine be ouer-dry there the apprehension is but slow to conceiue yet strong to retaine what it hath receiued those of this disposition haue their haires hard and curled the eyes hollow and become quickly bald The state and disposition of the brain being thus knowne it remains then that 〈◊〉 ry man be obseruant and temperate 〈◊〉 diet to take or forbeare such things as 〈◊〉 be either good or hurtfull vnto it 〈…〉 the braine be ouer-hot those things are 〈◊〉 be obserued and accustomed that dimin●●● and allay the heat thereof as the other to be forborne that increase it If ouer-cold then are we to abstaine from all cold meates and betake to their contraries such as increase heate and so moderating the extremity thereof it may be reduced by this meanes to a perfect perfection and so of the rest And thus much shall suffice to haue sp●●ken of the foure Constitutions or qualit●● of the Braine the direction whereof is c●●pious in the workes of many learned A●●thors which here I pursue not because purpose breuity but betake my selfe to fu●●ther matter of Discourse History and 〈◊〉 ty propositions furniture and talke for 〈◊〉 triall of Wits and Braines Of Memories true vse HE that remembers what he should forget Hath taken Memory from her seat and set 〈◊〉 three degrees below her ●e that forgets what he remember should 〈◊〉 equall ballance in account doth hold ●●th him that doth not know her ●e that remembers what he knowes is fit And to obliuion doth the rest commit That man hath learned all the rules of it And may proceed to practise Of the excellency of Memory MEmory it is that keepes aliue all the old Ages of the World and Actions of men from Adam to him that dyed yesterday all which were else raked vp●● the embers of obliuion but that Mem●●● takes them vp Discourse layes them open ●nd keepes them aliue Were it not for 〈◊〉 excellent Sense how should the iust be ●ewarded whose Memory shall bee blessed when as the memoriall of the wicked shall ●ot We see Memory to be a Record let vs then put nothing on this file but what is worthy a lasting durance for it is a perpetuall Register deface it not then blot it not choake it not by any distemper but cherrish and refresh it by these or better ●duices in this kinde when thou meetest with them she cannot want food 〈◊〉 the world is her dyet and in these Di●●●ses thou shalt finde Sentences and 〈◊〉 Conclusions some whereof will be 〈◊〉 worthy to be hung vp in this Store-ho●●● and so I leaue thee to gather what thou ●●dest worthy and to lay vp what thou ●●therest Propositions follow Qu. VVHat is the chiefe vertue and b●nefit of the Memory A. Recordare Beneficia Iudicia Exempla Nouissima Englished To remember 1. Benefits long to require them 2. Iudgements to auo●● them 3. Examples to bee forewarned by them 4. The 4 last things that we neuer dow amisse by thinking on them And withall as we must remember benefits long so we must forget iniuries quickly so that Memory and this forgetfulnesse will be equiualent in goodnesse Q. What doe we account the best staeyes and helpes to Memory A. Writing for that hath conueyed and carried along one Ages actions to another hath inriched one age with anothers knowledge by that we doe conferre with the deceased and call the dead to liuing conferences

and likenesse A. It was like a dew that fell euery Euening and white like the Coriander seed Q. Who was the chiefe deliuerer of the Children of Israel from the oppression of Pharaoh A. Moses by the hand of God miraculously preserued by Pharaohs daughter by her there found in the Bulrushes cast forth to be drowned where note that all the Kings of Egypt were called Pharaohs as al the Emperours of Rome Caesars For it is said there arose another Pharaoh that knew not Ios●ph Of which great Prophet thus further illustrated by the Poet Loe here an obiect vtterly forlorne Left to destruction as a violent prey Whom man might iudge accursed to bee borne To darke obliuion moulded vp in clay That man of might in after-times should be The bounds of fraile mortality that brake Which that Almighty gloriously should see When he in thunder on Mount Sinai spake There was one that came vpon a time to a great Counsellor of this Kingdome to craue his direction what good morall or politicall booke he would commend to his reading seeing the world was ful of books and there was no end of making many bookes that were made to no end and that much reading was a wearinesse to the flesh and bad for the eye-sight and too little ●●ading a friend to igno●ance worse for the insight and what was his answer Quoth he Reade the World reade men record remarkeable euents set them as a patterne before thee for thy owne instruction reade ouer thy owne actions see where thou hast trayned worthily where thou hast digrest wickedly and thou shalt obserue as one writes That by bad courses may be vnderstood That their euents haue n●uer falne out good With which opinion this Authour seemes to accord For many books I care not and my store Might now suffice mee though I had no more Then Gods two Testaments therwithal That mighty volume which the world men call For these well look't on well in mind preseru'd The presentages passages obseru'd My priuate actions seriously ore view'd My thoughts recal'd and what of them insu'd Are bookes that better far instruct me can Then all the other paper-workes of man If thou wilt reade History lay thine eye to the French Story goe thorow that volume of Kings from Pharamond the first to the last there see how the good and vertuous haue flourished how the euill and tyrannous haue ruined and decayed Likewise to the Dutch to the Spanish and there see the various occurrences and changes of times and men the wheele of fortune sometime deiecting one and as suddenly exalting another Reade the Turkish History and there thou shalt find obseruable matter amongst many other things thou shalt there finde Baiazet the scourge of Princes himselfe captiued in Tamberlaynes Iron cage The Scottish from Donaldus the first to the last of that line to this present Then suruey the English Speed Hollinshead and others and in these and all the rest thou shalt finde rewards and punishments of vertuous and vicious Princes as inherent to them as their Blood and Crownes and many their wicked Actions repayd by way of retribution and retaliation to example in two or three presidents of our owne 〈◊〉 home Henry the First by cruelty disinherited his elder brother Robert Duke of Normandy and put forth his eyes and this to make hiw owne children the more secure heyres of the Kingdome But see what happened hereupon His owne being at that time in France and to come ouer to keepe their Christmas here in England with their Father put forth to Sea and were all drowned in their comming ouer The manner thus the Saylors and Ship-men through excesse of wine which was plenteous at their parting were a●l drunke so that the Master could not well guide the Sterne nor the Mariners the Ship but it rode at randome which the Ladies being launced out into the maine perceiuing fell a weeping praying and lamenting in this state the Ship for a long time continuing in a doubtfull perplexity betwixt hope and despaire when at last in some hope of safegard and in view of land the Ship vpon a sudden split in two pieces against a rocke vpon this was a grieuous skrieke till the water had quickly silenced it Now whilst euery one sought to get vpon something to defraud the gaping billowes of their prey if it were possible the Prince had taken the Cockboat where being in some likelihood of safety himselfe aduenturing to saue his Sister who had hitherto maintained her life by grappling to a planck recouered her into his boat into which the rest so violently thronged after one another euery one willing to reprieue a life so ouer-loaded the little Vessell that with the weight and number the boat sunke and all perished except one Butcher that swomme to shore to tell the heauy tydings So likewise the Conquerour his Father who to erect New Forrest in Hampshire pulled downe ●6 Churches all the Towns Villages and houses farre and neere and brought all within 36 miles compasse to a Wildernesse for wild beastes in which afterwards his 3. sons were slain as you may read more at large in the first part of the Helpe to Discourse By Hastings aduice the Earle Riuers and Gray with others were without triall of Law or offence giuen executed at Pomfret and in the same day neere about the same houre in the same lawlesse manner Hastings himse●●e was beheaded in the Tower of London a greater iudgement then this of Hastings you shall not find in any story And thus much for a taste of some few Examples are copious in this kind and for mu●●bility Chronicle this in thy brest that there is no stability vnder the Sun Kingdomes alter and change The Easterne the Grecian the Roman the Turkish Empire succeeding one another into a continuall succession of change and so of all things vnder the Sunne He that had ●eene I●lius Caesar goe into the Senate 〈◊〉 his royal state and his poniarded body and ●loody robe Seianus in the Morning and his complexion at Euening of which one thus writes of him magnifying himselfe Swell swell my ioyes and faint not to declare Your selues as ample as your causes are I did not liue till now this my first houre Wherein I see my thoughts matcht by my power But this and touch my wishes great and hye The World knowes only two that 's Rome and I. My Roofe receiues me not t is Ayre I tread And at each step I feele m'aduanced head Knocke out a Starre in Heauen It were infinite to instance in this kinde these downefalls of greatnesse Philotas Bellizarius and others Richard the Second a man of misery as Richard the Third a man of cruelty the first whereof of a King became a captiue deliuering vp his Royalty with his owne hands into his enemies whose ominous Raigne was pointed at from Heauen at his landing with his young Queene Anne of Beme from France where at his first setting foot

told Di●es and as that Diuine Poet wrote to that purpose and if any such appearance there be the Diuell doth assume the shape For doubtles such a Soul as vp doth mourn And doth appeare before her Makers face Holds this vild world in such a base accoūt That shee lookes downe and scornes this wretched place But such as are detruded downe to Hell Either for shame they still themselues retyre Or ty'd in Chaines they in close prison dwell And cannot come although they much desire To this purpose is heere annexed a sto●● of a Diuine and a Lawyer that meeting at dinner the Lawyer to helpe Discourse proposed this question to the Diuine When Lazarus had laine foure dayes in the gra●e and after was raysed vp againe where was his soule in the meane time The Diuine not answering his question proposed vnto him another which was If Lazarus and his heyres should haue fallen at strife about his Lands the Quaere was Whose ought they to haue been This was according to the question in Virgils Eglogues Di● quibus in terris One difficulty choked by proposing another and yet For further confirmation thereof saith Lemnius A Scholler trauelling with his family came into a Towne to aske lodging and finding none It was told him there was a faire house that stood empty that he might either lodge or dwell in gratis but the inconuenience was it was haunted with Sprites and euery night in it was heard a great iumbling and rattling of chaines he nothing affrighted hereat desired to haue it which was accordingly granted At bed-time hauing disposed his family to rest hee himselfe sate vp in a chamber reading about midnight the time that Church-yards yawne and Spirits take their progresse he heard a noyse at bottome of the staires and presently it came vp he nothing daunted ●ate still reading till at last it appeared on the top of the stayres in the similitude of Askeliton or Anatomy wrapped about with chaines of Iron which comming vp beckened with his finger and so went downe the stayres to haue him follow him which he did and first hee led him thorow an outward roome then thorow a yard and thence into a garden where he left him in which place he pulled vp some grasse and left it for a marke and in the next day digged vp that place where was found a man buried that had beene there strangled which man being taken vp and buried with due Rites the house was euer quiet after But this doe I take rather to be an ancient fiction then a certaine truth A certaine Mountebancke hauing long cheated with his drugges and playsters and hauing profited little left his old profession and turned Priest and patching together diuers remnants of old Sermons and Homilies so vnfitly applied that his want of Schollership was soone discouered and hee of his Ministery as soone discarded 〈◊〉 dismission from thence hee made this p●●testation Now shall this businesse you 〈◊〉 done cost many a good mans life The Parishioners thus threatned accuse him before a Iustice The Iustice demanded what he meant to doe Why quoth he I meane to fal to my old trade of Paracelsus and that I am sure will cost some deare Q. Whether doth a dead body in a Shippe cause the Ship to sayle slower and if it doe what is thought to be the reason thereof A. The Shippe is as vnsensible of the liuing as of the dead and as the liuing makes it to goe the faster so the dead makes it not goe the slower for the dead are no Rhemorahs to alter the course of her passage though some there be that thinke so and that by a kinde of mournfull sympathy A Philosopher seeing a yong man proudly decked out like a Shippe vnder saile said I could wish I were such a one as that fond man thinkes himselfe but my enemies such as hee is Seeing likewise the world full of contention wished he might liue to see men striue for loue and not loue to striue Q. What is the Epitome or summe the ●●uare and measure of a Christian mans duty ●hich euen Nature teacheth and God approues A. To doe to others as wee would bee ●one vnto our selues a most vpright iustice ●nd the fulfilling of the Law and the Prophets Q. What is the Epitome or summe of all Philosophy A. It is collected out of the infinite volumes of Philosophers that those precepts that pertaine to humane felicity are comprised onely in these two words sustinendo abstinendo or in ferendo sperando In sustaining and abstaining in induring and hoping in bearing aduersities patiently and abstaining from pleasures warily hope still supporting vs to the Hauen of happinesse that we be not too much cast downe by the one nor corrupted by the other Q. What is that which they that haue nothing else for the most part are not without A. Hope Q. What is the most beautifull thing of all others A. Thal. Mil. answered The World the admirable worke of God and nothing more beautifull himselfe onely excepted wherein we haue the greene Carpet of the earth vnder our feet the goodly Canop●●● heauen ouer our heads fretted with gold●● Starres the wa●y Curtaines of the Ayre beside vs all the creatures to serue and delight vs and all to set forth the praise of the Creator of which both from the Greekes and Latines it receiues the name Clemen● Alexandrinus saith The Creation of the World is the Scripture of God whose 3. leaues are the Heauens the Earth and the Sea being as many letters therein as there are creatures in heauen and earth For the heauens declare the glory of God and the earth sheweth his handy-worke Q. By what Element most hath it pleased God to expresse to the world his Iustice and his mercy A. By Water when for the sinnes of his people hee therewith drowned the World But his mercy thereby in the institution of Baptisme by water and in that hee would haue the holy Spirit by which wee are Regenerate called by the name of Water Q. What shippe of all other was the most ancient the most spacious the most holy and the most rich that euer was or will be A. The Arke of Noe in which all the ●en wealth and creatures that escaped the ●ood were preserued and this is noted to ●●a type of the Church for as without the ●●rke was no safety so without the Church 〈◊〉 no saluation Q. Who was he that of a dumbe Father came 〈◊〉 the most excellent Orator in the world A. S. Iohn Baptist of whom Christ himselfe affirmes no greater to haue risen among the sonnes of women vpon whom ●nd the disparity betweene Christ and him ●●is thus obserued That at his Natiuity the dayes begin to shorten as at Christs Natiuity to increase and lengthen so likewise in their deaths when the body of Christ was exalted and stretched out vpon the Crosse the body of S. Iohn was shortned by the head according to his owne testimony