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A19606	The nosegay of morall philosophie lately dispersed amongst many Italian authours, and now newely and succinctly drawne together into questions and answers, and translated into Englishe by T.C. Seene and allowed.; Bouquet de philosophie morale. English	Meurier, Gabriel, d. 1587?; Crew, Thomas, fl. 1580.	1580 (1580)	STC 6039; ESTC S105132	39,847	132

most enemies to peace and chiefe causers that we haue not alwaies peace within our selues A. Auarice ambition enuy wrath and pride Q. By what meanes chiefly may a man maister and rule himselfe A. In rebuking that in himselfe which he blameth in another Q. VVhat is the first poynte of folly A. To repute himselfe wise Q. To what art or sort of life and science ought a father to aduance and put his children A. To that which by nature they are most inclined vnto being in this worlde profitable and in the other worlde auailable Q. What are the twoo thinges which most vere and trouble a man A. Yre and enuie Q. To whom should we in no wise vtter our secretes A. To him that is angry when we pray him not to reueale them Q. What are the true tokens of a foole A. To be angry too much and without a cause to laugh without measure and vppon no occasion Q. What beaste is that which byteth most venomously A. Of wilde beasts it is a backbyter and amongest tame the flatterer Q. What is the right propertie and nature of Fortune A. To feare the valiant vertuous and couragious and foyle the verlet vitious and coward and if she shewe herselfe fauourable to make many become fooles drunken blind and puffed vp with pride Q. How should a maister behaue himselfe with his seruantes A. Not to be too familiar with thē to admonish thē often therwithal not to discorage them from doing well not to be too seuere nor too parciall but to consider how hee was vsed himselfe Q. By what meanes may a king make himselfe a Monarch A. By good counsel eloquence liberalitie and martiall discipline Q. How should the wiseman liue with the foole A. As the Phsition doth with the patiēt Q. What is the best remedy that a man can vse being depriued of a thing which hee helde deere and esteemed A. To perswade himselfe it is not lost but lent or else payde away as being none of his owne but borrowed Q. What doe most men now a dayes in the worlde A. One sorte search without cease and find nothing another sort finde so much that they are wearied and yet not satisfied Q. What is the best way to auoide surfetting A. The rich man to liue soberly and the poore man to labour diligently Q. How should one behaue himselfe not to be deceiued in this worlde A. Eyther to flee the company of men altogether or else presently to dye Q. What are the three best giftes that man can haue heere on earth A. An art or facultie to preuaile against Fortune health and liuelines of his body and person and lastly vertue force of his minde and courage Q. VVhich are the foure purses most requisite to him that goes to law A. The first is good counsel the second is money the third craft and subtiltie and the fourth diligence and patience Q. VVhat is mans life without doctrine A. A tree without fruite and an Image of death Q. VVho is the wisemans gouernesse A. Patience Q. And who the fooles A. Folly Q. VVhat are those thinges amongest al other that merit the palme of inconstancie A. The sea the winde the moone time loue fortune and the common people Q. What is he on earth that most resembleth God A. The iust man Q. How is a noble and valiant courage to be mainteined A. By labour exercise and trauell Q. For what cause is old age feared so much A. Because shee comes ordinarily accompanied and seldome or neuer alone Q. What shoulde we seeke to agyne at ech mans handes A. Their fauour and freendship that can neuer hurt vs. Q. Why is man aboue all wilde beastes whatsoeuer reputed most cruell A. Because being as he is often inobedient to reasō he exerciseth his cruelty against man his like wheras contrarie the Lyons Tygers serpents and such like are freends to their owne sexe and not enemies Q. What effect shoulde worldely welth chiefly haue A. To free their possessours from labour and calamitie Q. What force or efficacie hath knowledg and learning A. To induce the good to waxe better and the ill to waxe no worser Q. What is he in this worlde that can doe all thinges A. The only verruous man Q. What foure thinges are those which ech man coueteth to get and no lesse desireth to preserue A. Health for his person riches for his house honour in a common weale and life euerlasting in another world Q. How should a Prince behaue himself towardes his Subiectes A. Like a good Gardiner that gathereth the leaues and not the rootes or a good shepherd that keepeth his sheepe carefully from the woolfe and sheeres them at time of the yeere not cutting their skinne off Q. What are the elements and grounds of all euill A. Enuie pride auarice and ambition Q. How comes it to passe that Phisitions thinke they may kill their patientes without reprehention A. Because the grounde couereth their workinges Q. What is anger or furie A. A certaine briefe kinde of rage or folly Q. What lawes were those which Draco commaunded inuiolably to be obserued and written with mans bloode A. To stone Rogues and vacabounds being healthfull and ydle and to put to death the vnthankefull Q. What is the whole course and propertie of mans life A. To be borne wéeping to line laughing and to dye sighing Q. What is one of the principallest causes why regions cities and prouinces doe rebell often against their Souereignes A. The negligence of the gouernours who in place of shepheardes and good kéepers doe commit the flocke vnto rauening wolfes and gréedy dogges Q. What are the thinges that one true fréende shoulde wish to another A. Safetie health honour prosperitie Q. When wil the good time come again A. When wee are gone and good men in our places Q. What is the spéediest way to become rich A. To appouerish the appetites and bee content with that which one hath Q. What is frendship A. It is saith Cicero the Sunne of the worlde without the which the whole worlde should lye in darkenes and without order Q. What is the true way to become euery day better and better A. To enquire of wisemen and our familiars what folkes say of vs and if they praise vs rightly to perseruer without being proud of it in well doing if not to amende our life and make that they may say well of vs. Q. What is the chiefest refuge that an offender still hath A. To sweare and lye Q. From whence procéedeth now adaies such aboundance of wicked persons and wickednes in the world A. From the lacke of good persons and goodnes Q. Who is the particular Emperour and guyde of euery mans lyfe A. His owne conscience and vnderstanding Q. What is the greatest gifte and torment that a man can giue his enemie in reconciling him selfe to him in amitie A. To giue him his daughter in marriage to the ende that shee may torment him

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

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