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church_n	earth_n	militant_a	triumphant_a	4,249	5	10.5933	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B07975	Natvral and morall questions and answers. Intermingled with many prettie and pleasant riddles, and darke sentences / written by A.P. ; with a manner of ordering the body for health through euery month of the yeare, and for dieting it for a seuen-night after blood-letting. Written in Latin verse by Ioachimus Camerarius.	A. P.; Camerarius, Joachim, 1534-1598 Victvs et cultvs ratio.	1598 (1598)	STC 19054.5; ESTC S94569	41,291	139

it and by foresight to resist forraine inuasion Quest. Who are onely to be called resolute souldiours Answ Those that are determined either to die or els to obtaine the victory Quest What is a cheefe fault in warre Answ Feare of death Quest. How did antiquitie represent vnto vs the issue of good things Answ They made an image holding in the right hand a cup and in the left hand an eare of corne with a sprig of Poppy signifying therby that he easily is brought asleepe that is contented with the fruits of the earth Quest What seruice is most in request and being performed is least considered and most hated Answ Treason Quest What time is most desired and obtained is most accused Answ Age. Quest. What men are cheeflie deceiued Answ Those that looke for two contrarie thinges at one time namelie for pleasure and the reward of vertue Quest. What is that in the morning goeth vpon foure legges at noone vpon two and in the euening vpon three legges Answ Man for in his infancie hee creepeth vpon hands and feet in his youth hee goeth straight without any helpe or stay and in his age vseth besides his legges the aid of a staffe to support his body Quest. What thing is in the day time as round as a hoope and at night long as a Answ A girdle about a man or womans body Quest How many waies is violence cheefly committed Answ Two waies either by deceit or by force the one is the practise of the Foxe and the other of the Lyon and both of them are most farre from humanitie Quest. Why is vertue had in so small account Answ Because shee is plaine and cannot dissemble Quest Why dooth vertue reiect all glosings Answ Because truth needes no shaddowes Quest What men are most ingratefull to themselues and least hurtfull to other men Answ Those that are couetous and enuious for as these pine away at other mens welfare and prosperitie so the other endanger their soules to leaue rich perhaps vnthankfull heires behind them Quest. Why is heauen said to haue a low gate Answ Because those that shall enter into it must first stoope low and learne humilitie Quest Why did Antiquitie in their churches place a crosse vpon the entrance of the quire Answ Because the body of the church did represent the church militant vpon earth and the quire the church triumphant in heauen to teach vs hereby that no man would come from the one into the other vnlesse hee did suffer first crosses and persecutions Quest. What is a friend Answ Another selfesame Quest What is commonly the end of a dissolute life Answ A desperate death Quest. What is a cheefe signe of a Princes clemencie and a token of his great courage and magnanimitie Answ To despise the whisperings of vnthankfull men and patiently to suffer the rage of enuy Quest Which are the cheefest ornaments of women Answ Shamefastnesse Quest. How might a foole resemble a wise man Answ In hiding of his folly by silence Quest. What three things doe men most couet Answ Riches Pleasure and Honor. Riches bee the nurses of sinne and iniquity Pleasures the guides to calamitie And Honor the pompe of worldly vanities Quest. Why are pleasures so much to bee abandoned Answ Because their first entring is counterfeit and deceitfull and their departure is griefe and repentance Quest What thing in this world is alwaies without rest Answ A guilty conscience Quest What is it that men most doe hunt after and oftentimes prooueth most deceitfull Answ Womens fauor Quest. What is it that women most feare yet of it do most desire the occasion Answ To be with child they most desire and fear most the hour of their deliuery Quest What doe children most hate and yet is most profitable vnto them Answ Correction Quest. What is lesser then a Mouse and hath more windowes then a house Answ A Thymble Quest. What vice is most likest to the apples of Tantalus Answ Hypocrisie For as the Apples of Tantalus seemed in sight most beautiful and yet prooued but shadowes so this vice although it beareth a glorious shew of perfectiō yet is nothing els but a meer and a deceitfull illusion Quest Why is it amongst men now adaies so much practised Answ Because it is the highest degree of dissembling and therefore is accounted a sure step to promotion Quest. What men transforme themselues into angels of light and are nothing but Diuels incarnate Answ Hypocrites Quest What men promise thēselues many vaine things Answ Courtiers and such as liue in continuall hope Quest What thing in the latter minute of his age waxeth yong againe Answ The Moone Quest Who is the mother of all mankind Answ The earth euen by the Oracle of Apollo for this Oracle being demanded by certaine Princes that were in controuersie for the kindome of Aegypt who should succeed the late King deceased answered that he should not only be installed King of the kingdome of Aegypt that first should kisse his mother but should likewise become monarch of all Asia This answer being reported by the Priest vnto the Princes that were then attending without vpō the Oracle Darius hauing heard it stept suddainly from his horse and kist the ground saying that the earth was the mother of al mankind The princes that could not deny it made and created him King who afterward conquered all Asia and became quiet monarch of many kingdomes Quest What is it that taketh least pleasure in company Answ Pride for it hateth his betters enuieth his equals and despiseth his inferiors Quest What is it that being aliue is altogether dumbe and being dead yeeldeth a most sweet harmonie Answ A Lute or any kind of instrument made of wood Quest Which is the best remedy for things that are not to be recouered Answ Obliuion or forgetfulnesse Quest. What is chiefly to be commended in a warrior Answ To be in fight terrible and in conquest mild Quest. What surfeit is most dangerous and least auoided Answ The surfeit of sinne Quest. Who kill their mother ere they be borne in the reuenge of their father that begot them Answ Vipers for as the male and femall ingender by the mouth so the damme being kindled with lust in the art of Venery bites of the males head and the yong ones ere they be borne gnaw their mothers belly open to come forth and so doe kill her Quest What is it that soonest waxeth old Answ A benefite for nothing is sooner forgotten then a good turne and nothing longer remembred then an iniury Quest What are Vsurers Answ The Horseleeches and Caterpillers of the Commonwealth Quest. What is the least and yet the profitablest thing in a Garden Answ A Bee Quest. What wind bloweth no way to profite and is noysome to all the neighbours Answ The foisting of a dogge the smell whereof is noysome to all the companie that are neere it Quest Vpon what men are almes deedes worst bestowed Answ Vpon blind men

his son Alexander to be greeued at it wherevpon he said vnto certain Gentlemen there present The Hystories record that Alexander the Great being a child did weepe when he heard that Philip his father had obtained the victory of a battell and besides had conquered a kingdome all at once And being demanded wherefore hee wept answered that hee feared that his father would winne so many realms and countries that hee should leaue him none for to conquer And quite contrarie quoth the lord Gonsalues is it with my sonne Alexander now readie to weepe for my crosse lucke and great losses because hee feareth that I shall loose so much that I shall leaue him nothing for to loose A pretty quippe giuen vnto two Cardinals by a Painter RAphell Vrbin being a very excellent and skilfull Painter vpon a time hearing two Cardinals with whome hee was very familiar to reprooue and find fault only for to anger him with a certaine picture of S. Peter and S. Paule which hee had very artificially painted and finished saying that the pictures faces were too high coloured and too red without further studying gaue them this answere My lords maruaile not hereat for I haue purposely so painted them as they are now in heauen and not as they were here vpon earth for this rednesse commeth vnto them blushing euen for very shame to see the church so ill gouerned by such and such like as your lordships The answere which the great Turke gaue to the Embassadours of the King of Hungarie BAiazet Emperor of the Turkes inuading with a great army Bulgary a part of Hungary The king Sigismondus sent his embassadors vnto him to desire him not to molest trouble his subiects and countrie wherevnto by no law he had not any right claime or title Baiazet to answere herevpon caused great store of armours and other warlike instruments to be brought into a certaine hall appointed for that purpose and hauing sent for the Kings Embassadors said vnto them Loe here my lords pointing with his finger vpon the armours the titles whereby I doe claime and am to possesse the crowne and kingdome of Hungarie Right and equitie haue no place in the court of a Tyrant A pleasant reproouing of the Marques of Mantua FRederick Marquesse of Mantua as he did sit at dinner among many Gentlemen one of them hauing almost made an end of his porrige supt vp the rest and to excuse his inciuilitie craued pardon of the companie The Marquesse in presence of them all gaue him this ready answere sir aske pardon of the Swine for vnto vs you haue done no offence or iniury A worthy deed of an Italian knight AN Italian knight as hee was sitting at dinner saw two Gentlemen that had alwaies behaued themselues most valiantly in the warres and had done good seruice to their countrie to stand as abiects of the cōpanie because all places were taken before wherevpon he did rise and so caused all the rest to rise with him for to make place vnto these two Gentlemen saying Giue place vnto these two Gentlemen for to eat their meat for if they had not beene with vs in such a fight naming the place wee should at this time haue had nothing for to eat The tyrannicall sentence of Prospero Colonna PRospero Colonna Collonell of the Italian infanterie within the Garrison of Milan a Cittizen of the twon came vnto him complaining against the exactions spoiles and forceable robberies of his souldiours vnto whom hee gaue this answere Mylan is like vnto a Goose for the more he is pulled the fairer will be his feathers Of Pope Sixtus the fourth and a Frier POpe Sixtus the fourth hauing beene a Frier of S. Francis order and being aduanced to the Papall dignitie was visited vpon a certaine time by a Frier of his Order who had been one of his chiefest friends and familiars the Pope willing to shew him some priuate fauour brought him into his cabinet wherein he had a very rich treasure and smiling said vnto the poor Frier Now Frater I cannot say that which S. Peter my predecessor said Aurum nec argentum habeo I haue neither gold nor siluer It is most true quoth the Frier but holy Father you cannot say likewise as he said to the impotent creple and lame Surgite ambulate Arise and walke The wise saying of Charles the fift Emperour NEwes being brought vnto the Emperor as he sat in counsell that the Marques of Guassa was with all his forces discōfited by the Frenchmen Cardinall Grandelle his Chancellor fearing that the affaires of the Realme should succeed the worse for it said to the Emperour Sacred Maiestie this ill reencountre is to be kept secret Wherevpon the Emperour answered It is not possible to keepe things close done before so manie witnesses but that which is yet to bee done and attempted is not to be reuealed It is very daungerous to a Realme when the enemie knoweth the secrets as soone as they are determined Of the humilitie of Godefrey Duke of Buillon VVHen the Duke Godefrey of Buillon with consent of all the Christian Princes was chosen king of Ierusalem and therevpon the royall crowne was offered and presented vnto him he did refuse it saying It is not meet for mee a Christian Prince to weare a crowne of gold whereas Christ King of Kings did weare but one of thornes The last will of Saladin King of Asia SAladin King of Asia Syria and Aegypt declared vpon his death bed how miserable hee knew the nature and state of man to bee and therefore commanded that being dead they should cause his shert to bee carried vpon a launce through all his camp and insight of all the lords captaines and souldiors of his army and hee that should carrie it should crie with a lowd voice Saladin subduer and vanquisher of all Asia amongst all his riches which hee hath gotten and conquered carrieth nothing with him but this only linnen The greatest triumphs of man in parting out of this world are the workes of charitie and godlinesse The wise answeres of Antonius Panormus to King Alphonsus ANtonius Panormus being demaunded of the King what was most necessary and requisit vnto them that would liue together peaceablie in the state of marriage because that most commonly as the Poet sayth Semper habet lites alternaque surgia lectus Inqua nupta iacet that is With quietnesse is seldome blest The bed wherein a wife doth rest Answered that there were two thinges most requisite The first that the husband were deaffe for not to heare all the follies scolding wordes and ill reports of his wiues disordered life The second that the wife were blind for not to see the great enormitie and excessiue intemperance of her husband Of King Lewys of Fraunce and a souldiour KIng Lewys in his wars against the Emperor being on a time in one of his battels somewhat far from any of his companies a certaine Germane knight thinking to make himselfe rich by