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cause_n	wit_n	world_n	write_v	85	3	4.9990	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07448	Wits common wealth The second part. A treasurie of diuine, morall, and phylosophicall similies, and sentences, generally vsefull. But more particularly published, for the vse of schooles. By F.M. Master of Arts of bot Vniuersities.; Palladis tamia	Meres, Francis, 1565-1647.; N. L. (Nicholas Ling), fl. 1580-1607. Politeuphuia.	1634 (1634)	STC 17835; ESTC S121517	258,252	788

WITS COMMON WEALTH THE SECOND PART A Treasurie of Diuine morall and Phylosophicall similies and sentences generally vsefull But more particularly published for the vse of Schooles By F. M. Master of Arts of both Vniuersities LONDON Printed by William Stansby and are to be sold by Richard Royston at his Shop in Iuie Lane 1634. To the Reader TRiasunt omnia is as old a● father Time All morall Phylosophie is diuided into three parts Ethicall Oeconomicall and Politicall All Law is reduced to three heads to the Law of Nature to ancient custome and to the ordinances of men And to insist in our ●wne state All our Parliaments consist of three sorts of people Nobilitie Cleargie and Comminaltie And all our tryals and iudgements are determined after three formes and manners by Parliament by Battell and by the great Assise So all the force of wit may flow within three chanels and bee contriued into three heads into a Sentence a Similitude an Example Carolus said that warres were maintained with victuals money and Souldiours so Wit is nourished with Sentences Similitudes and Examples And therefore as three things are necessarie for a Scholler a Will a Wit and a Booke so I hold that Sentences Similitudes and Examples are as necessarie to vphold a Wit Iulius Caesar vsed to carry three things about with him when he followed the wars his pen to write the whole course of the Romanes successe in their warres his Bookes to find himselfe occupied and his Launce to repulse his enemies so he that would write or speake pithily perspicuously and persuasiuely must vse to haue at hand in readinesse three kind of orn●ments and effectuall motiues Sentences Similitudes and Examples Wherefore as Pythagoras wished three things for himselfe Health Beautie and Riches so I considering the necessitie and excellency of these three heads haue long wished the accom●ishment publication of them And in truth what can I desire more then to see the naked Truth arrayed in Sentences fitting the tast of Phylosophers inuested in Similitudes loued of Oratours and approued by Examples the rule and leuell of the vnstayed and raging multitude Saint Augustine desired to see three things Paulus Aemilius triumphing Saint Paul Preaching and Christ vpon the Crosse in the first hee desired to see the glory of the earth in the second the glorie of the Gospell and in the third the glorie of Heauen so haue I long desired to see three things Truthes soundnesse in Sen●ences her elegancie in Similituds and approbation by examples And now I haue my wished desire Wherefore I may reioyce for three things as Philip King of Macedonia reioyced Hee ioyed that hee had wonne the Games at Olympus by the running of his Chariots that his Captaine Parmenio had ouerthrowne the Dardarians and that his wife Olympia had borne him a Sonne called Alexander So I exceedingly reioyce and am glad at my heart that the first part of Wits Common-wealth contayning Sentences hath like a braue Champion gloriously marched and got such renowned fame by swift running equiualent with Philips Chariots that thrice within one yeare it hath runne thorow the Presse If this second part of mine called Wits Common-wealth contayning Similitudes being a stalke of the same stemme shall haue the like footmanship and find the same successe then with Parmenio I shall be the second in Philips ioy And then Philips ioy will eft-soones be full for his Alexander whom not Olympia but a worthy Scholler is conceiuing who wil fill the third part of Wits Common-wealth with moe glorious Examples then great Alexander did the world with valiant heroicall exploits Lampedo is iudged happy for euer as Pliny writeth for three causes for that she was a Kings Daughter a Kings Wife and a Kings Mother Thales to one that asked him who was happy said Quicorpore sanus est fortuna diues animo eruditus So I iudge him of an happy Wit who is profound and substantiall in Sentences eloquence and ingenious in Similituds and rich and copious in Examples The first part being published some yeares agoe hath had the worlds fauour and furtherance which hath made him so cranke young and fresh that thrice in one yeare hee hath renued his age a spring more then is in fruitfull Saba If this second part may find as much fauour and countenance with you gentle Reader as Antimachus the Poet found with Plato it shall bee instar-omnium to me and therewith contented I shall willingly send this second with the first to take what fortune Wit will send him Which I hope and wish may bee as kindly accepted as I doe heartily offer them Which if I shall perceiue neuer was Aristotle more gratefull to Alexander nor Enuius to Scipio nor Virgill to Augustus nor Horace to Mecaenas nor Pliny to Vespasian nor Plutarch to Traian then I shall bee to you gentle Reader whom I beseech the Highest to blesse with increase of vertuous qualities in the mind with augmentation of dignitie in the world and with perpetuitie of e●erlasting felicitie in Heauen FRANCIS MERES The Authours both sacred and profane out of which these similitude● are for the most part gathered A AEsopus Agapetus Diaoconus Albertus Nouicampianus Ambrosius Angelus Politianus Anthonius Appianus Arnobius Aristoteles Athanasius Athenagoras Auicen Augustinus Authour actionis contra Mariam Scotorum Reginam B Biblia sacra Basilius Beda Bernardus Clar●uallensi● Benardus Iustinianus Bernardus Scardaeonius Bion. C Caelius R●odiginus Caesarius Arclatensis Chronicles of England Chrysostomus Cicero Clemens Alexandrinus Clemens Romanus Climacus Columella Conradus Lycosthenes Rubeaquensis Conradus Gesnerus Cyprianus Cyrillus Alexandrinus Cyrillus Hierosolymitanus D Damas●enus Dem●sthenes Dyctis Cretensis Diadochus Diogenes Laertius Dion Chrysostomus Dion Nicaeus Dioscorides Doctor Play●ere Dorotheus Archimandrita Dugo Philonius E El●●●us Calentius Epictetus Epiphanius Erasmus Esayas Abbas Eugubinus Euripedes Eusebius Emissenus F Franciscus Patritius Fulgentius Fulgosus G Geminianus Gregorius Nazianzenus Gregorius Nyssenus Gregorius Papa Guerricus abbas Gulielmus Peraldus H Hermas seu pastor nuntius penitentiae● Hector Pi●tus Heliodorus Henricus de Hassia Herodotus Hesiodus Hieronimus Hilarius Hippocrates Homerus Horatius Hugh Broughto● I Iacobus de Valentia Idiotae contemplationes Ignatius M. Iohn Fox M. Iohn Lilly M. Iohn Harington Iohn Capgraue Iohannes Stobaeus Iouianus Pontanus Irenaeus Isaac presbyter Isidorus Clarius Iustinus Phylosophus martyr Iuuenalis L Lanctantius Laurentius Iustinianus Leon Baptista Alberto Lodouicus Granatensis Lodouicus Viues Lord de la Nouue M Macarius Mantuanus Marcus heremita Martialis M●ximus monachus M●rcurius Trismegistus Munster N Nilus abbas Nilus monachus O Olympiodorus Optatus Mileuitanus Origenes Ouidius P Palladius Petrus Chysologus Petrus Ramus Pettie Philipus Boroaldus Philo Iudaus Picus Mirandula Pindarus Plato Plinius Plutarchus Polanchus Pomponius Mela. Polybius Procopius Gazeus Propertius Ptolomaeus Pythagoras Q Quin●ilianus R Rabbi Moyses M. Richard Hackluyt Richardus Victorinus Robert Greene. Rupertus S Salonius Saluianus Sansonius Saxo Grammaticus Seneca Sir Phillip Sidney Sidonius Apollinaris Solinus Stella Strabo Synaesius