A. An ill beginning contempt of good counsell to doe more then one can and not to continue in a thing well begunne Q. What sicknes comes by ydlenes A. Loue. Q. Which are the men that haue a double life A. The good men liuing vertuously Q. What is the thing that time cannot consume although sometime it seeme swallowed vp A. Trueth Q. What be the pointes of a good schoolmaister A. To be prudent vertuous diligent skilfull patient true a myrrour of vertue eloquent ful of good examples hauing a goód eye to be as a father towards his schollers Q. What is the propertie of children A. To be angry appeased lightly to open al that they know to delight in their likes Q. What profiteth it to giue to him that neyther meriteth nor deserueth A. As much as the raine falling vppon stones or grauell Q. What is abstinence A. It is a vertue of the soule brideled by reason the which withholdeth vs from the disordinate lusts that we haue towardes the the pompes of this worlde Q. What is continencie A. It is a vertue of the soule which subdueth our sensual appetites to reason in such sort that as by abstinence auarice is gouerned so by continencie lust is brideled Q. What is Sobrietie A. It is a vertue ruling eating drineking without the which euery other vertue is dimmed and darkened Q. What is the last solace in aduersitie A. Hope Q. How behooueth it vs to liue in this world A. Like a shamefast man at a banquet who taketh naught but what is giuen him and if the cup be not recht him drinketh not Q. Why should not we giue credite to the worlde in any cace A. Because it is false and fallible neuer paying that which it promiseth nor dooing to his creature as it ought to doe Q. VVhat is the best reason to mooue twoo being at strife to accord A. To perswade them to consent to veritie for she will please both of them Q. VVhy did Alexander the great iudge it better to giue ones daughter in marriage to a poore man being wise then to a rich man being a foole A. Because the rich foole is still readie to be poorer when the wise poore man is stil in possibilitie to be richer Q. VVhat maketh a man to become brane A. desire of honour and glory Q. VVho is the queene of morall vertues A. Hope Q. VVherein consisteth health A. In not being ydle nor filling the body too full of wyne and meate Q. What is the highest wisedome A. To know God Q. What man is woorst conditioned A. He that delighteth to speake yll of all the worlde Q. By what meanes may women beâ—â— become Maisters and Rulers of their husbands A. In suffering obeying paciently Q. VVhat is science A. It is like vnto a soule when the works are the body Q. Which is a good woman A. Shée that appeares outwardly euill Q. VVhen is money good A. VVhen it serues ones turne too doe good Q. What is a thing vncurable A. The dishonor of a soole Q. VVho is he that neuer wil be riche A. He that neuer will be suffised Q. VVhat is the mother of true ignorance A. To be ignorant in the knowledge of God and ashamed to learne Q. VVhat is pacience A. It is to endure willingly a thing of an euill digestion to haue and tast thereby honor and profite Q. VVhereon liueth the iust man A. On fayth Q. VVho is hee that conuerteth good turnes into euill A. He that geueth to an vngratefull or a wicked person Q. VVhat is that which drawes a mans money out of his purse A. A good thing good cheape Q. VVhat is the right way to deceaue a nigarde A. To vse liberality towardes him Q. VVhat are the maintainers of all artes A. Honour hope and loue Q. VVher vnto may a woman be compared that is richly apparreled and yet foule and illfauoured A. Vnto a dunghill couered with grasse Q. To what may this world be compared A. To a great caue of fantasies mingled togeather Q. What is the cause that wee sée not spades rakes and shouels in the handes of Princes and contrary wise scepters and crownes vpon the head of Country clownes and rusticke felowes A. The breuity of our time will not let vs sée it Q. How comes it to passe that there are so many Cookes and fine vressers of meate now adayes A. Because the worlde is wholy geuen to delightes and is more weake and negligent then of olde time it was Q. What beast is most enimie to man and most changeable amongst all others A. Thou hast sayde it is man Q. How doth mans body mamteine him selfe in all ages A. In the cradle with milke in childhoed with roddes in gréene youth with shame and good discipline in mans estates with armes in elder age with counsell and last of all with a staffe he goeth senselesse towards his graue Q. VVhat is vertue ioyned with noblenesse A. A mixture of true humanitie Q. VVho is he that the more he serues the more frée he is A. He that serues an honest man or in an honest cause Q. VVhat are the true déedes of a wiseman A. To make his enemy his friende a wicked person good a foole wise an ignorant skilfull and to apply himselfe too the time Q. What is the victory of many agaynst one A. A very crowne of infamie Q. What is nobility of birth without the ornament of vertue A. A right Sunne beame ouershadowed with Cloudes Q. What is presumption of knowledge A. The default of vnknowledge Q. What is Courage without Counsel A. A Horse without a bridle which runneth headlong in his race till he fall Q. What is liberalitie A. A poore vsuresse which gaineth the goodwill of him on whom she is bestowed Q. What is enuie A. A certaine fretting beast sworne euemie to the vertuous Q. What is paynting A. A still kind of Poetrie Q. What is death A. The Horison which bringeth the day of the soule Q. What is the most desperate enterprise that one can take in hand A. To gouerne a womans will Q. What is the best treasure of treasures A. Sense and discretion Q What is the greatest pouerty in this worlde A. Ignorance Q What is the scourge of the Soule A. Sorrowe Q. What is the scourge of the Bodie A. Sickenesse Q. What was the cause that auncient Philosophers would eate no more but of one sort of meate at a time A. Because they woulde not haue to doe with Phisicke Q. What is the true Partisane shields and buckler of Princes A. The penne of a good writer defending guarding their glory in the record of eternall memorie Q What is one of the greatest shames that a man can receiue A. To be ouercome in honesty turtesie or any other vertue by them that are reputed to be his inferiours Q. VVhat kinde of people ought a man not to quarrell with A. Not with the good for offending them
Crocodile flyeth them that followe her and followeth them that flye her and so doth loue Q. What deserueth hee that loueth himselfe too much A. To be hated of all others Q. From what women should a man kéepe himselfe A. From the quicke and the dead Q. What is mans life A. A shippe tossed amongest waues windes tempestes sharpe showers and continuall perils Q. VVhat is one quicke fire carrying another A. It is a woman carrying fyre for the whotter saith Aristotle carrieth the colder Q. When is it that one euill ioynes with another A. It is when a woman is sicke Q. Who is it that multiplieth euil vppon euill A. A young Damzell learning too write Q. VVho is he that cannot be alwaies without a wife A. He that is accurst Q. What are the thinges that make realmes townes and cities to be loste A. Negligence to people them well idlenesse discorde and to trust too muche to fortune Q. What are the thrée things amongst many that greatly displeased Plato A. To sée a riche man become poore an honorable man despised a wise man flowted of fooles Q. What is the very poyson of the earth A. Golde and siluer Q. How ought the Prince and the people to liue togeather A. As the soule and the body Q. What was the cause that a Philosopher speaking pleasantly held opinion that the poore were of a better house then the rich A. Because they are all for the most part of the house of God that is to say of the Hospitall Q. What are the thrée sortes of men that are to be pitied most A. One should haue pitie on him which is subiect too an euill man on him which is subiect to a foole and on him which is liberal and yet is in bandes to a Niggarde Q. VVherein differeth a man from a Beast A. In soule and reason Q. VVhich is the most perilous member of the body A. The eye beeing messenger of the heart Q. VVhat are the bitterest rootes of all others and yet beare the swéetest fruites and best A. The rootes of pacience for they are necessary too the young delectable too the olde profitable to the poore ornamentes to the rich glory to the happy solace to the vnhappie beautifying the noble and exalting the vnnoble Q. VVhat caused the Philosopher to affirme that it was better too haue an euill Prince then one simple and ignorant A. Because being euill he is euill but to himselfe but being simple he infecteth al the people Q. What was the cause that Alexander the great louer of iustice woulde neuer permitte that offices appertayning too iustice should be solde A. Because hee affirmed that hee that buyes by great will at leastwise sell by retayle Q. What is the true foundation of a Christian man A. Fayth hope and charity Q. Howe may a man be a maister hauing no science A. In subduing his owne vice Q. VVhat are the thinges that are most néere one to another and yet enemies A. Life and death prosperity and aduersity Q. Why doe olde folkes so delight in wood A. For feare of falling to rest themselues on I meane staues and stooles Q. What are the twoo beastes that susteine the crownes of kinges A. The hare representing feare and the dogge resembling loue Q. What is the life of man properly A. A true Caue of fantasies A true Shoppe of deceites A true Double maladie A true Ioye soone sicke A true Olde age staffeles A true Peace without fayth A true Blindnes without a guyde A true Stable of lyes A true Vale of miserie A true Fountaine of thoughtes A true Ship without gouernour A true Arke of sorrows A true Sad consolation A true Freedome of vyces A true Suretie perillous A true Turning wheele A true Vaine imagination A true Sloath set a woork A true Ignorance yet skilfull A true Pouertie abounding A true Rotten prison A true Fugitiue beautie A true Foolishe wisedome A true Bitter sweetnes A true Languishing ioye A true Fayre deformitie A true Miserable felicitie A true Forrest of Thistles A true Slippery yee A true Continuall warre A true Kingdome of Satan A true Kinde of base haughtines A Bel without a clapper and a light still ouerwhelmed with darkenes Q. Why is the world compared to a great table couered with a little tablecloth A. Because the more eche one draweth it to himselfe the more he discouereth his fellowes side an place Q. Who doeth open wrong vnto himself A. He that humbleth himself to one whom he should not Q. What is a manifest folly and signe of vaine glory A. To boast of thy owne good déedes Q. What is the most gratious thing in this worlde and of least continuance A. As Domitian the Enperour sayth it is corporall beautie Q. VVhat is the greatest charge or burthen vpon the earth A. An ignorant foole Q. What would the Cynike Philosopher inferre by his prouerbe He that marrieth late marrieth euill A. That they which are to learne the art of patience are to beginne in their yong and tender age as is approoued by vnreasonable beastes as coltes Bullockes c. Q. VVhat are the things that cannot be cleane and vndefiled A. The wheele of a chariot or waggon the potter the Marriner waying and mending his cables and he that is accompanied still with naughtie persons Q. How may a iealous man know if his wife make him Cuckolde A. Let him gelde himselfe Q. What are the thinges that change the nature and condition of a man A. Estate or dignitie a wyfe and wine Q. What is corporall beautie A. A richesse fugitiue a baite of wantonnesse a delectatable detriment a secret engyne and a librarie of recommendations Q. What is warre A. A bannishment of peace a buriall of Charitie a natiuitie of pouertie a nurse of malice Q. Which are the best wayes to become rich A. To be heedie wise aduenterous and to vse greate diligence and small dispence Q. What is the propertie of an honest man A. To think doe or say nothing but that which is to the glory of God and profite of his neighbour Q. Wherein consisteth humanitie A. In helping his neighbour or his fréend at his need in curteous saluting him and often inuiting him to a moderate banquet or feast Q. What is the best counsell that a man can vse in all busines A. That sayth Aristotle which a man taketh for himselfe being in daunger of shipwracke or drowning Q. What is vertue A. The queene of all thinges iust and honest and the Princesse of soueraigne happinesse Q. What is the most decent maner that a Lorde or great man can vse in his house or territories A. To intertayne the little sort as infantes the middle sort as brethren the antient sort as fathers and strangers as his fellowes Q. Which is the way to liue in peace and rest A. To flée couetousnes and anger Q. Who is he that hath nothing neither can looseth any thing A. The faythles depriued of
Cooke A. He that eateth alwaies when hunger oppresseth him Q. What are the bad thinges that driue a man out of his house A. A bad wyfe smoke raine and want of victuales Q. Why doe women cloath and couer themselues so sumptuously A. Because fowle thinges séeke to couer themselues still sooner then faire things Q. What are the richest fairest Iewels that a woman can haue A. A vertuous husbande and vertuous children Q. What is a faire childe A. A glory to the wife and a suspition to the husband Q. What is aduersitie A. The mother of Temperaunce the Nourse of Glory and a spurre of vertue Q. Why did the auntient learned men and sages disdaine to be called doctors A. Because they saide and affirmed that vertue had néed of no other title thē her own Q. To what may one compare a vertuous man speaking dishonestly A. To an vnclean vessell ful of pure wine Q. What was the cause that Socrates often exhorted and permitted his schollers and youthes to looke themselues in glasses A. Because in beholding their owne beautie and elegancie of their bodies they might studie to make their mindes conformable to the same by good disciplines and if in the glasse they appeared fowle and deformed they might studie how to amend that deformitie by vertue Q. Why did Licurgus forbid the Lacedemoniens to banket A. Because in banqueting men loose their iudgmēt by drinking their grauitie by speaking and their health by eating too much Q. What was the order and obseruance at Mariages of the Lacedemoniens A. To haue onely nine persons in company to giue wine to him the held his peace Q. Where should a man séeke his goods A. Where his friendes are Q. What is the most dangerous ignorance that may be A. Neither to know God nor himselfe Q. Wherein lyeth the force of an army A. In counsell in the happe of the Captaines in the heartes of the Souldiers in the situation of the fielde and chiefly in the will of God Q. VVhat are the thinges best for him that wil make good chéere A. A mery hostesse laughing breade leaping wine trembling fleshe and weeping cheese and weightie Q. What is the thing that maketh Alquimiftes fooles poore and insensed A. Mercury Q. How commeth it to passe that flatterers haue commonly so great credite with Princes A. Because they are so amorous of them selues they loue to heare thēselues praised and in this they resemble the Dwle that hath her eye sight dimmed at midde day Q. How should a man proceede in correcting or reprehending another man A. As the Phisition doeth in healing his patient that is to shewe him selfe sweete and pleasant and not a reuenger for the phisition that killeth his patient is not a phisition but a hangman or executioner Q. Who is the father that when the sonne offendeth inuiteth him too offende againe A. He which winketh at his fault and pardoneth him Q. What is the best glasse a man can vse A. His owne thought for therin he may sée both his fayrenes and his foulnes Q. What is the life without learning A. A tree without fruite a day without sunne a night without moone and starres a house without a man and a body without a heade Q. Who is he that may easily vanquishe his enemie A. He that demaundeth nothing but reason Q. When is the season that a woman thinketh woorst A. Then specially when she is alone and ydle Q. What are those commonweales or kingdomes that easily fall to decay A. Those where tyranny raineth and policie is of no power Q. What are the thinges that diminish pride A. Sicknes and pouertie Q. What is the way to leade a happy life A. To put a bridle to the tongue the hands the belly and carnall lustes Q. Who is the seruant that may say to his maister I force thee not thou art seruant to my seruant A. A poore man seruing a couetous carle so said Diogenes to Alexander the great Q. What is the beast that beareth a man both aliue and dead A. The horse for he caryeth a man on his backe and being dead they make shooes of his skinne Q. What ought Princes to entertaine to the end to haue continuall peace A. Equalitie Q. What are the thinges that a man ought warily to take héede of A. Of wine of fire of water and of a woman Q. Of what effect is seruice A. It obtaineth friendes Q. What are the fruites of flouth A. A Melancholy life miserie pouertie and dispaire of himselfe Q. What is the thing that makes a man most wise A. Dayly experience Q. What is the recreation of the Soule A. Sapience Q. What ought a good Pilgrim to haue A. An eloquent tongue a true hand and a cleane mouth Q. For what cause shoulde one neither praise nor dispraise the world A. Because he that praseth it too much may easily lye and he that dispraiseth it is in daunger of punishment Q. What are the things that depriue a man of his temporall faculties A. Fortune sicknes and his foes Q. How ought we to vse our selues towardes our friendes A. To praise them openly and reprehend them secretely Q. Wherewith onely is prosperitie accompanied A. With folly with aroganeie and with enuie Q. Why do we sée Philosophers at princes gates sooner then Princes at Philosophers gates A. Because Princes knowe not what they haue néede of Q. Why did the wise man say that it were better to be a begger then a foole A. Because a begger hath néede of nothing but of money but a foole hath néede of humanitie and vnderstanding Q. What are the déedes of charitie A. To honor God to loue his neighbour to helpe the oppressed and chastize the wicked Q. What is death A. It is a plaie of craft and not of force wherein if the player be skilfull he gayneth a great deale for a little Q. VVhat is a shippe properly A. A wandering house without foundation Q. VVhat is a remedie against enuy A. To banish prosperitie Q. VVhat is the best meane and way for a prince to become rich A. To make first his treasure of wise men and then he shall become riche for as the wicked and malitious destroy and impouerish a prince so the wise enrich him with kingdomes and Empires Q. VVhy ought a prince to knowe well his subiectes and vassalls A. To the end he may chastice the euill and rewarde and fauour the good Q. VVhy ought we to haue death still before our eyes A. To the end we forget not our saluation Q. VVhat are the three things amongst many that men loue and haue in great reputation A. Health of the body abundance of riches and conseruation of their good name and honour Q. VVhat is the beautie of a woman A. A very mourning dewe Q. VVhat is the cause motiffe which most encourageth a valiant man to hazzard his life A. The safegarde of his rencome Q. VVhat are the thinges which shews the condition
¶ THE Nosegay of morall Philosophie lately dispersed amongst many Italian authours and now newely and succinctly drawne togegether into Questions and Answers and translated into Englishe by T.C. Seene and allowed ¶ Jmprinted at London at the three Cranes in the Vintree by Thomas Dawson 1580. To the right woorshipfull and his singular good Lady and mistres the Lady Martin of London Thomas Crewe wisheth long life with increase of all happines and woorship I Was bold Madam for two causes to dedicate this Nosegay vnto your ladishippe The first is the gentle acceptāce that I know it shal haue at your hands who haue alwaies been a fauourer of learning of them that are learned The seconde is that comming out vnder the name of so woorthie a Patronage it shal be the better accepted of all men I am bounde also for twoo causes to doe the same first to satisfie in part the duetie which I owe vnto you and to shew some signe of the loue that I ow to you and yours Secondly that the worlde may see that alwayes a green tree is not fruitles but that that garden which before bare brābles and thistles if it be wel tilled will beare also sweet smelling flowers The slips hereof were set in sundry Italian gardens with branches therof I met at Paris which smelled so sweetely that I tooke the paines to transport them hither into England and to binde them vp in this small nosegay the which I pray your Ladiship so to accept as with 〈◊〉 humble hearte I present the same Thus wishing continually the increase of your woorship with al other things which you would either to you and yours I ende Your Ladiships most duetifull to commaund Thomas Crewe ¶ The Nosegay of Morall Philosophie Note that Q. signifieth Question and A. Answeare Q. WHAT is the parts of a true Christian A. Too loue and honour God aboue al thinges without offending him in thought woorde or déede and his neighbour as him selfe Q. What is that which most pricketh a man to liue well and godly A. To think stil that he is at the last end of his life Q. What is a court or city without vertuous men A. A darke night without any Satrres Q. What are the most enemies to mans life A. Anger excesse colde corrupted ayre sorrow trauell vrgent affaires and a greate familie Q. What is vertue A. It is an harmonie of nature wherein all good thinges accorde and a true ladder to mount to happines Q. What is the greatest want that an humane creature can haue A. Want of discretion and veritie Q. Wherein consisteth true philosophie A. In vertuous liuing Q. What is that doctrine which wee should necessarily forget A. The vice of reuengement Q. What thing is that aboue al others which the older it is the better is A. True amitie or faithfull loue Q. What is the best remedie against the feare of death A. To thinke still vpon it Q. What is the greatest spite that a man can doe to his enemie A. To excell him in well liuing Q. What are the thinges that make a man soonest to erre and to be deceiued A. To speake much and knowe lyttle to spend much and haue little to presume much and his power but little in satiable auarice and hope to liue long Q. How may one couertly dispraise a wicked person A. In praising him and extolling him too much Q. What is the chiefe ground of our saluation A. To beleeue in God the father and in Iesus Christ his onely sonne our Lorde and that the holy Ghost procedeth from thē both without whom we neither thinke nor doe ought that is good or profitable Q. What is the greatest iniury that a prince iudge or gouernour can doe to good men A. To fauour and pardon euill men Q. What is a mans truest freend A. His wisedome and prudence Q. And what his most foe A. His folly Q. VVhat are the twoo principall points that make a King or Prince reigne happily A. Liberalitie and Clemencie Q. VVho is father and mother to wisedome A. Vse is father and Memorie is mother Q. What is the thing that is easiest too learne and hardest to forget A. Vice Q. What is the office of a good housholder and the duetie of his wife A. The man ought to cary the burthen of care trauel and labour and the wife to bee faithfull in keeping his goodes and house neate patient and carefull to see her husbande doe well Q. What was the reasō that the Philosopher saide a man was more at safty in hauing many enemies than one alone A. Because in hauing many eche one attendes til his fellow doe the first mischiefe and none will begin Q. For what cause saide Diogenes that lame and diseased persons ought rather to be called Lordes and maisters then the whole and sound A. Because that beeing attainted with sicknesse they rule and gouerne their pride the fleshe the worlde and all vayne glory which the other doe not Q. Who is maister of the couetous A. He that is seruant of the liberall that is to witte Money Q. Who are those men that haue their tongue in their hearte and those other that haue their heart in their tongue A. The wisemen haue their tongue in their heart but the fooles haue their heart in their tongue Q. What are the chiefest vertues to be required in a man A. To knowe God and him selfe and to keepe silence and his his owne counsell Q. Wherefore is forgetfulnesse in many thinges preferred before memorie A. Because we ofte recorde that which we would not but cannot forget that which we woulde Q. Who is he alone that one may iudge and say hath liued as long as he would A. He that hath killed him selfe through dispaire and wilfully Q. What are the true pathes that conduct a man to pouertie A. Slouth gluttonie prodigalitie and mischaunce Q. Who are those that easily get fréends A. The rich the liberall the pitiful and the curteous Q. What are the engins traps hookes and nettes that soonest deceiue and take man A. Faire speech great giftes desire of gaine and little knowledge Q. What are the fiue thinges requisite in a common weale A. These aged Schoolemaisters vertuous and not vicious skilfull Captaines valiant and not cowardes learned priestes ruled and not lasciuious yong Damzels honest and not dissolute vpright iudges iust and not corruptible Q. What estate is that which maketh wisemen fooles and fooles wisemen A. Marriage Q. What thing is it that most abateth pride A. Tribulation Q. What kinde of folly should we iudge best A. Alwayes that which is shortest Q. From whence springeth all malice A. From lacke of knowledge Q. What difference is betweene a Tyrant and a good prince A. The principall desire of a tyrant is to bee serued and of a good prince to be beloued Q. What onely thing is it that cannot ware olde A. A lye for it must needes be discouered Q. VVhat are the
which hapneth ofte among princes Q. Of what value ought a prince his woorde too be A. Of that value that a priuate mans othe should be Q. What may a mans body most properly be called Q. The sheath or cace of the Soule the slaue or seruant of the minde vnder whose subiection God nature reason haue put him as a thing altogether brutall too a thing of vnder standing and a thing mortall to a thing immortall Q. What disease doe meates being too hoat commonly ingender A. The leprosie and a corruption of blood Q. What is the best armour to attainâ— to vertue A. Labour hunger thirst heate colde confrancie Patience and perseuerance Q. What is iustice A. It is a great honour and glory to theÌ„ that vse it and a great gaine to them to whoÌ„ it is vsed Q. To what may the whole vulgare people be compared A. To a greate beaste hauing innumerable seete and no heade Q. What is the best rule that a man may holde with his wife A. To admonish her often to reprehende her seldome neuer to lay handes on her but if shee be good to fauour her to the ende that shee may continue so and if shee be euill to suffer her to the ende that shee waxe not woorse Q. What is the best and surest guard that aprince can haue A. The loue of his subiectes Q. Why doeth one man beare enuie too another A. Because sayth Cicero he is not as the enuied is that the enuied is better then he Q. What are those thinges amongest all other which wee shoulde in no case haue affiance in A. In the chaunce of the dice in olde prosperitie in cloudes in the Summer or faire weather in the winter nor in the beutie of a woman Q. Wherin consisteth humanitie chiefly A. In gentle speech In curteous déedes and fréendly hospitallitie Q. What is an olde man amorous A. A knight in the Chesse play who helpeth a man to loose his money and yet cannot deliuer him from perill others say that he is like vnto a hog with a white heade and a greene tayle Q. For what cause did Timon the Philosopher so detest and hate all mankinde A. He hated the euell for their vices and offences and the good because that like him they did not hate the euill Q. What is Idlenes A. The diuels Darling and a familiar enemie who when he is once entred openeth the gate to all vices Q. What is that which a man can doe without learning it A. Laugh and weepe Q. What rule should one obserue in conuersation and companie of men A. If he with whome we be conuersant be our superiour in knowledge it behooueth vs to heare him and obey him if he be our equall to consent and agree to him and if he be our inferiour to perswade him fréendly and gently Q. In what place is silence most to bee obserued A. At the table in feastes and banquets and at playes Q. What signified those presentes which Darius sent to the Scithians to wit the Mole the frogge the birde and dartes A. The mole signified the earth the frog the water the birde the ayre and the dartes armes Q. What are those abuses which most corrupt the worlde A. The Wiseman wtout Woorkes The Olde man wtout Religion The Young man wtout Obedience The Rich man wtout Charitie The Poore man wtout Humilitie The Greate Lorde wtout Vertue The Christian wtout Fraternitie The Bishoppe wtout Pâ—etie The Prince wtout Justice mercy The People wtout Law discipline And the woman without shame honesty Q. What be the true vertues required in a man A. To be a good Christian iust of his woord and secret Q. What is the best meane to knowe the qualities of a man and whether he be to be trusted or not A. One must consider what his woorkes conditions woords behauiour and fréendes are and make enquirie how he hath behaued himself in times past with those with whom he hath practised and delt and whose company he hath vsed Pares cum paribus facillimè congregantur mores dispares disparia studia sequuntur Q. What two thinges are those which make the publike weale to floorish or decay A. Vnion and dissention Q. What is the greatest Seigniory or gouernment that a man can attaine to A. To gouerne himselfe for it is a more vertue for a man to bridle his affections then to vanquish his Enemie Q. What thinges are those amongest al other that breede most ioye in the hearse of man A. To haue wise children store of goods and reuenge ouer his enemies Q. Why are the Lawes that men dec make compared to spiders webs A. Because if little Flies come they are easily taken and holden but if greate Drones come they passe through and breake all That is to say Little theeues are soone taken and hanged but the greate are so strong in money that they with their authoritie and freendship breake all Q. What was the dayly lesson of the Lacedemonians which by the appointmeÌ„t of Licurgus the lawmaker was euery day published to the end to be wel obserued A. To honour God to be pacient in aduersitie to obey the rulers to apply themselues to trauell and labour and to returne from the warres either conquerours or els deade Q. What is the greatest vertue that a Prince or great Lord can desire or couet to haue A. To be alwayes superiour in well doing Q. What be the properties of prudence and iustice A. Not to be deceiued nor deceiue no bodie Q. What be the twoo prickes that incite a man most to learne artes and sciences A. Hope and loue Q. What thinges amongest all others are those which profit a man most to thinke least of them A. To be inquisitiue of another mans doinges and forget his owne to be be curious to know the secretes of princes and too take thought for foode for the fishes of the Sea Q. For what cause is the qualitie of the Peacocke compared to the nature of the rich man A. Because the peacock commonly climbeth vpon house sides and high places to plume himselfe and shewe his faire tayle the rich man commomly searcheth degrees and dignitie to be seene praised and esteemed Q. To whom is not Venus hurtfull A. To them that are not yet borne Q. To what kinde of people is death most acceptable and least fearefull A. To the afflicted Q. What thinges are those that are better olde then newe A. Wine Fish Oyle dry wood to burn an olde horse to ryde and an olde dogge to barke and aboue all these an old fréend and approoned Q. What is a fréende A. A freende is another ones selfe and freendes are one heart or one mind in two bodies Q. What are the most terrible beastes of the worlde A. Of Forrests hilles and dales beares and Lyons of Townes and cities flatterers vsurers and backbyters Q. For what cause did Plato say that when fathers are riche the
nor with the euill least they offend him Q. Howe may one properly call temporall faculties A. Disturbers of rest dullers of the spirite nets to take worldlinges in and pricks to pearce hungry soules Q. Who is he that may truely be called valiant A. Hee that loueth his life and feareth not his death Q. What is the dust that most blindeth mans eyes A. The dust of golde Q. What kind of people haue least friends in this worlde A. The poore and distressed Q. Howe and when shall wée trust any man A. VVhen wee haue eaten a bushell of salt with him Q. Who is page attendant still on glory and prosperitie A. Enuie Q. To whom is a couefous man good A. Nought to all men and woorse to him selfe Q. Of what qualitie should one take a wife A. Equal and conformable to his owne estate Q. What is banishment A. A ciuill death Q. VVhat be the three thinges wherein specially a common weale consisteth and without the which it can neither floorish nor endure long A. Religion pollicie and learning Q. VVhat doeth a couetous man want A. All thinges Q. VVhat doth a poore man want A. Not much Q. VVhat doeth a contented man want A. Nothing Q. VVhat be the goods of fortune A. Noblenesse Riches Dignitie Fréendes an honest wyfe and a heape of good children Q. VVhat is the foundation of good lawes A. Vertue Q. VVhat is Rhetorike A. A Sallet of sweete wordes seasoned with the oyls of flatterie Q. VVhat is humanity A. A vertue ioyned with good affection or a due beneuolence mingled with dexteritie Q. VVhat should he haue in him that ruleth and gouerneth others A. Hee ought too excéede his subiectes in bountie and knowledge as farre as he surpasseth them in degrée and honour Q. VVhy is gold pale A. Because eche one lookes after it and lies in wayte for it Q. VVhat are the vertues that bring vs to Heauen A. Faith hope and charitie Q. What are the thinges that are contrary to our saluation A. Hate misbeliefe despayre impietie hypocrisie and ill doing Q. VVhich be the morall vertues A. Prudence Iustice force temperance magnanimitie magnificence leberalitie haughtines of heart ioyned with humblenes innocencie grauitie centinencie loyaltie and shamefastnes Q. What is the poyson of freendship A. Flatterie Q. Whence springeth noblenesse A. Of vertue Q. Who is inuenter of all artes A. Pouerty Q. Why do we commonly geue young damzels flowers and nosegaies A. Because that after flowers followe fruites Q. What thinges are those which are right pleasant to a man and which he is loth to forgoe A. The countrey wherin he was borne the goodes which hunselfe hath gotten and the friend that he hath throughly tried Q. How should one vse the goods of fortune A. As subiectes vnto him and not hee to them Q. Why did Plato hold opinion that to liue happily in a citie one must chace away both riches and pouerty A. Because riches maketh a man fyrannous proude pouertie induceth him to do wickedly Q. Which are the best riches A. Those which are best gotten and serue as to the best vse Q. How may one know the iust from the vniust A. By the law and not by nature Q. What is carnall lust A. A kinde of weake force or furie Q. What is the secret théefe that leades his maister to the hospitall A. Banquetting and ryot Q. What is the propertie of a wiseman according to Aristotle A. To beare rule ouer the starres to know and gouerne himselfe not to chaunge nor vary at the assaultes of fortune to bestows his time well and not to be affraide of death Q. What is the first duetie of a cōquerour A. To pardon the conquered Q. How commeth it to passe that the palme representeth constancie A. Because the more it is laden and ouerpressed the more it groweth encreaseth Q. What is the office of olde age A. To be modest and temperate graue in consideration in woord and deede to giue good example and counsell when it is required of him Q. VVhen hath one most licence to lye A. Then when he may saue the goodes or the life of another man Q. VVhat is the propertie of a vayne glorious man A. To beleeue lightly all that one speaketh in prayse of him Q. VVhat is the true touch of a knane A. To conceale the truth for feare of harm Q. VVho is the daughter of time A. Truth Q. VVhat is the thing that is vntameable that kings them selues cannot withstand A. Necessitie Q. VVhen is it good to accompanie with a woman A. Alwaies when one will make feeble his bodie Q. VVherein may a man soonest perceiue his owne wit A. In thinking himselfe a foole Q. VVhy did the wiseman pray that God should keep him frō his frend not from his enemie A. Because men keepe themselues eastly from their enemies whom they trust not but of their freendes whom they trust they are soonest deceiued Q. VVhat is wine disordinately drunk A. The bloode of the earth turned into poyson Q. VVhy did Democritus pull out his owne eyes A. Not for to see his freendes liuing in prosperitie without iustice or vertue Q. Why is olde age with Cicero had in great commendation A. Because it is the passage neere vnto another life Q. What is the priueledge of a valiant minde A. Not to be subiect to fortune Q. What are the thinges most noble amongest all other worldly thinges A. To hate folly to loue vertue and to haue a desire to learne still Q. VVhy was Licurgus most esteemed aboue all other Lawmakers A. Because he obeyed that which he commaunded himselfe Q. What twoo thinges are those which reioyce a man much A. To haue wise children and to see reuenge ouer his enemies Q. For what cause is it better to be hated then loued of an ignorant and noughtie person A. Because his conuersation is alwayes perillous and no wise profitable Q. From whence proceede and depende all debates and controuersies in the world A. From yea and no mine and thine Q. What is folly A. A great and mightie let from felicitie Q. What are the thinges that are neuer satisfied A. Fire the dry ground hell the loue of a woman and a couetous mans purse Q. VVhen is it that silence is counted a byce A. When for the profite and benefite of ones neighbour he shoulde speake what hee knowes Q. What is the reason that Plutarche compared those men which spake loude and to no purpose vnto emptie vessels A. Because they make ordinarily more noyse then the full ones that are profitable Q. How commeth it to passe that being with the fayre and healthful we become not more fayre and healthfull but frequenting with the good fust moderate we become better and increase our vertue A. Because the giftes of the mynde may be imitated and not those of the bodie Q. When the Gluttons suppe dayntily and soberly A. When they haue dyned grossely and disorderly Q.
Who is he that may lawfully make himselfe Lorde of another mans goodes or learne his cunning A. Hee that payes well for it Q. What is the parte first formed in a man and last dead A. The heart Q. What is dauncing A. A subtill net to entrap the lasciuious Q. What are the strongest thinges of the worlde A. Time and trueth Q. Why is it better to haue a shrewish wife then a shéepish A. To the end that the worlde doe not with her as it listeth Q. Why haue some men allowed slatterie A. Because she setteth before our eyes what we shoulde be Q. In what countreyes are the Gibets most flowred with Naughtipackes A. In those where they haue least fauour and more iustice Q. What were the thrée paynes ordayned by the Lacedemoniens from the which were it not by death none could escape at the least to suffer one A. Payne to him which was not married payne to him which marryed too late and a treble payne to him that tooke an euill wife Q. What vertue and efficacie hath the pen of a good writer A. To eternizate the memory of noble men to instruct the posteritie and to make his owne name indure for euer Q. What sort of men tell the trueth A. They that are carelesse Q. What is the proper ducty of a good father towardes his childe A. To nourish him soberly to kéepe him under in obedience to teach him good manners and to learne him an art how to liue in time to come Q. What thinges are ordinarily geuen to a childe A. The Nurse giues him two yeeres of milke the mother two yéeres of excuses and the father twentie yéeres of chastisement Q. What hath moued the auncient Poets to vse so many fictions and inuentions A. The zeale that they had to solace and delight men and the ardent desire to conuert them from rudenesse to vertue Q. What euilles doeth idlenesse ingender A. It slaundereth the world peruerteth the weale publike vndoeth his mayster endomageth the good destroyeth the euill Q. Who is he that is drowned twice A. He that drownes himselfe in couetousnesse and then putteth himselfe in hazarde of the Sea and there is drowned Q. What are the thinges that are right necessary and requisite to a Captayne of the warres or Coronel A. A competent number of good Souldiers victualles good store and plenty to spend and still to be certified what and where the enemies are Q. What is the way for to get a good name A. To speake little and doe well and too labour Q. What signifieth the sadnes of an enuious person A. Eyther that some euill is happened to him or some good to another man Q. What is the best thing that a man can doe A. To liue well Q. Who is the most liberall man of the worlde A. It is according to Galen he that thinketh those good turns great that he receiueth and those little that he doeth Q. VVhat is the best rule for him that will liue well A. To bridle his affections by good discipline Q. What are the thrée worst sicknesses in a Citie A. Idlenes Ignorance and Folly Q. What is Rhetorique A. A Science to lye and flatter well Q. How may a man winne the grace and fauour of all the worlde A. In being merrie curteous liberall gallant tractable and mercifull Q. From whence come lies A. From a seruile minde Q. What are the things wherein a man cannot be satisfied A. In getting of riches or dignities cunning and honour and in hearing of good newes Q. What is the principall stay of vice A. Abstinence Q. What is the care that euery one shoulde haue A. Too shewe himselfe curteous too heare paciently and answeare wisely Q. What is that common weale which is like to continue long and not decay A. That where the Prince findeth obedience and the people loue for as of the loue of the Prince springeth the obedience of the people so of the obedience of the subiect springeth the loue of the Prince and as Pythagoras sayth loue is payde with loue Q. VVhy did the Gréekes in olde time wéepe at the birth of their children and sing at the death of their old men A. Because the children came to die and the olde men went to liue Q. VVhat is the cause that many ill condicioned children desire so ardently to sée the death of their Fathers A. Because if the Children bee riche they woulde haue their libertie and if the fathers be rich they woulde haue their goodes Q. What is old age A. The gulph of maladies Q. What are good wordes in a Iesser or fooles mouth A. Like to corne in a wet vessel which sodeinly sprouteth and then perisheth Q. Howe commeth it to passe that our Predecessours haue liued longer then those of our time A. Because they were more sober and of a better complection and that thinges béeing saltned by the flood haue caused a greate default in nature Q. How may a souldier winne honour in the warres A. In loosing feare and all fayntnesse of heart Q. What are the thrée things in men altogether vnlike one to another and yet of great admiration A. The fauour of the body spéeche and writing Q. Who are they that haue fayre eyes and sée nothing A. The vnlearned and the amorous Q. What is the greatest vertue morall A. Force Q. What was the cause that Scipio refused the tytle of greate which the Spaniardes had geuen him A. Because as he sayd to change name and tytle is a signe of lightnesse and vnconstancie Q. What is the duety of a good housholder A. To geue effectually good example to be diligent to entertayne peace amongst his family to sée all thinges neate and to kéepe oue order and measure Q. What are those three thinges that the wiseman lamenteth and repenteth that he hath done A. The first is too haue reuealed his secrete the second to haue gone by Sea when he might haue gone by land and the third is to haue passed one day without doing some vertuous thing Q. What is the way for a Prince too raygne surely A. To do to his subiects as a father doth to his children Q. Who are the merriest marchantes and most at their ease A. They that are most lightest I meane Marchers and not merchantes for that is quite contrary Q. What thrée estates are the richest of the worlde A. The wise the healthfull and the contented Q. What are the thinges requisite for a gouernour of a citie A. To vse equity to make due prouision for victual to eschewe tumult and contention and to get himselfe the loue of his Citizens Q. How may a man pay his debts that hath nothing A. In dying Q. To what may one compare a goodly personage and of no courage A. Too a leaden Dagger in a paynted sheath Q. What is a sure sawce for all kinde of meates A. Hunger and appetite Q. Why haue the Philosophers compared loue to the Crocodile A. Because the
children are seldome vertuous A. For that betweene ease and aboundance of riches vyce commonly not vertue doth dwell and hath residence Q. How should a man be born to liue happily in this world A. Either a king to reuence him on his enemies and to correct vices or a foole not to know what sinne meaneth but to liue without thought care or molestation of minde Q. What is the best and greatest rent that one can haue A. Sparing and if our goodes bee not sufficient for vs to make our selues sufficient for our goodes Q. What is the true path to bring one honour and renowme A. Alwaies to be such a one as we would haue our selues esteemed Q. What is modestie A. A right moderation of our appetites obeying reason Q. Who is he aboue al others that may be estemed rich A. He that is least couetous and most confent with that he hath Q. Why is it better for a man too bee iudge or Arbitratour betwéene twoo of his enemies then twoo of his fréendes A. Because in deciding a controuersie betweene twoo of his enemies he shall without doubt gain the fauour of the one of them whereas on the contrary part he shall loose the fauour of one of his freendes Q. For what cause did the Philosopher counsell vs to take rather a little wyfe than a great A. Because alwayes a little euill is better then a great Q. VVhat is it that maketh a prince vnhappy A. To think and perswade himselfe that all thinges are lawfull for him and to giue his eare to parasites and flatterers Q. What is pietie properlie to be called A. It is the honour which we owe first to God next to our country and then to our parentes and kinsefolkes Q. What is corporall beautie A. A Tyrant momental a stil deceiuer and a familiar enemie Q. What are the proper titles of the Sunne A. The father of the day the gouernour and eye of the worlde the heart of nature the king of Starres quickning the bodies as well of reasonable as vnreasonable creatures Q. What is the chiefe let that a young man cannot be wise A. Lacke of experience Q. What are the fiue enemies to peace A. Pride yre ambition auarice and enuie Q. Which are the best helpes to come to dignity A. Counsell eloquence liberalitie and military discipline Q. What is the fairest creature of the worlde A. It is sayth Aristotle man adorned with vertue Q. What was the manner of the Assyrians in marrying their daughters A. They solde the fairest at the sounde of a trumpet to him that would giue most and with that money they married the foulest so that it cost them nothing Q. What are the thinges requisite for a merchant to haue A. Money credite diligence faire words and keeping of his promise Q. What be the thinges that are moste requisite in a woman or young mayd A. Beautie and honestie in her woorde deede and attire diligence in a houshold and skil in washing sewing and spinning but chiefly in holding her peace Q. What are the best manners a man can haue and most easie to obtaine A. Liberalitie and truthe in woorde and déede Q. What is the cause that little folkes are sooner angry then the great A. They resemble heerein little chimneis which ordinarily are more smokie then the great or little pistols which discharge their â—â—otte sooner then great cannons Q. What are the poore mens riches A. Their children Q. What are the three thinges that are good for euery man A. To vnderstand well to speake better and to doe best of all Q. What are the thinges that a yong damzell should chiefly eschewe A. The haunts of doores or windowes the familiaritie of spinners and launderers and to giue or take nothing Q. What is the best armor that a man can weare or carry A. A man can weare or cary no better armour then faith and trueth Q. What thing is without comparison far greater then all other thinges A. The mercie of God Q. What is the reason why mankinde is worthilie compared to the serpent called Vipera A. Because the nature of the female is when shee feeles her selfe great with young ones to bite of the heade of the male and for her desertes it comes to passe that the young dipers to reuenge their fathers death gnawe themselues out of her bellie Thus if the father suffer the mother rests not vnpunished and in fine the children beare their share and it comes to them as they haue deserued also Q. Who are they that easily get frends A. The faire spolten the rich the liberal and the curteous Q. What are the whippes that excessiuely torment the heart and abridge the life of man A. Enuy excesse and the losse of goods by vs gotten the folly of freends and pouertie Q. Who is he that may be saide aliue amongest the liuing A. A man amongst wisemen Q. What are the thinges amongst al others that a man ought to obserue and commend in all estates and times A. Not to waxe proude in prosperitie nor dispaire in aduersitie not to reuenge ech iniury receaued nor to enuy and fret at the prosperitie of another man Q. What are the true guides which lead a man streight to the Hospitall of pouertie A. Play gluttonie slouth and whordome Q. What thing is more necessary then fire or water A. A true freende or true friendship Q. For what cause is it better to fall amongest rauens then flatterers A. Because rauens only feed on them that are dead but flatterers deuoure them that are aliue Q. VVhat kinde of people ought we most to flee and haue feare of A. Those that haue their tongue dipped in houie and their hearte in gall Q. VVhat is a quiet life A. A dead Sea Q. What is the most precious ornament that a young maiden can haue A. Silence Q. What are the foure principal plagues that princes ough to take héede of A. To cal their owne follies and rashnes prudence their crueltie iustice and to fatten themselues with the miseris and calamitie of the poore people and to fauour flatterers Q. What things are those that cannot be hidde nor dissembled A. Riches loue dolour hate the cough and smoke Q. What are the things that are easily and neuer gotten againe A. A woorde once spoken virginitie and tyme. Q. VVhat ought a good father to leaue his children when he dyeth A. The good nothing and the euill lesse For the good childe though he haue nothing yet can lacke nothing and the more the wicked childe hath the woorse he is Q. VVhat are the proper goodes of the bodie A. Health beautie force nimblenes and a ioyfull olde age Q. What are the proper euilles of the bodie A. Sicknes and foulenes Q. What are the goodes of the minde A. Science and vertue Q. What is felicitie A. It is a vertue right happie Q. What are the diseases of the Soule A. Vice and ignorance Q. VVhat are the diseases of Fortune A.