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A05326	A helpe to discourse. Or, A miscelany of merriment Consisting of wittie, philosophical and astronomicall questions and answers. As also, of epigrams, epitaphs, riddles, and iests. Together with the countrymans counsellour, next his yearely oracle or prognostication to consult with. Contayning diuers necessary rules and obseruations of much vse and consequence being knowne. By W.B. and E.P.	Basse, William, d. ca. 1653, attributed name.; Phillips, Edward, 1630-1696?, attributed name.; Pond, Edward, d. 1629, attributed name.	1619 (1619)	STC 1547; ESTC S117185	70,959	300

One yeaee thus to another yeelding roome Haue fild vp many a sepulcher and tombe Fretted out brasse with age marble with rust Conuerted generations into dust Frō which collect though nere so yong thou bee This may doomsday finall yeare of thee And frō that motiue such a method borrow As thou shouldst liue an age or die to morrow A Briefe Chronologie of the times wherein these famous men liued and dyed   Anno mundi Aristotle 3640 Homer 3003 M.T. Cicero 3980 Virgil 3998   Anno Domini S. Augustine 400 S Anselme Bishop of Cant. 1080 Agrippa the Magitian 1550 S Bernard 1130 S. Chrysostome 400 Erasmus 1528 Martin Luther 1520 Melancthon 1530   yeares Since London and Paris were paued 416 Since the building of London bridge 435 Of a Yeare and what it is and why it is most properly called ANNVS THe word Annus which most properly signifieth circle or Compasse is here termed for the year which is properly that space of time that the Sunne runnes through the whole Signes and Zodiacke and the reason thereof is for that as little Circles are called Annuli Rings so the greater circles of time are called Anni yeares or circuits because they euer run round and with continuall compasse inuiron all thinges within the verge of Age. Q. What are the parts of a yeare A. Ver estas Autumnus hiems sunt quatuor vnum Qui si membra simul iunxeris annus erit It containeth Moneths Solar 12 Lunar 13 Weekes 52 Dayes 365 so many as there are veines in the body of man Howers 8766 According to the Poet. Ter centum ter viginti cum quinque diebus Sex horas neque plus integer annus habet Or thus Lxv. tria c. capit annus quilibet in sae Addito sex horas anni compleueris oras The yeare Astronomicall or Iulian yeare addeth thereto 6. howres and 6. minutes which euery fourth yeare increase to a day which maketh the Leape yeare or his sextill compounded of bis and sextus because the 6. day next before the Calends of March is twise repeated or reckoned which indeed is the 25. of February Saint Mathias day so adding to the moneth of February one day from whence proceedeth the difference betweene vs and other forraine accounts Q. Why is it called the Iulian yeare A. Because Iulius Caesar the first Romane Emperour caused the yeare according to the course of the Sunne to bee reduced to the number of daies and howres before expressed and whereas March was the first Moneth of the yeare with the Hebrewes and Romanes as now with vs and Iuly was the fift moneth called by the Romans Quintilis the fift month March being the first which Iulius Caesar borne in that moneth altered and called it Iulius or Iuly as August Caesar in whose raign Christ was borne the moneth Sextilis or 6. moneth after his owne name Augustus now August with vs and so reckoning from March the 1. Moneth September according to his signification will bee the seuenth moneth October the 8. moneth Nouember the 9. Moneth December the 10. month which if you reckon from Ianuary they crosse their names Q. The holy Scriptures make mention of sundry thinges done at certaine houres of the day not like vnto the howres of our account as in S. Iohns Gospell the Rulers sonne healed of his sicknesse it is sayde at the 7. houre the Ague left him and the Laborers that came into the vineyard came at the 11. howre and Christ in his Passion t is recorded by the Euangelists that at the 6 houre was darknesse ouer the whole earth and about the ninth houre be cryed with a loude voyce and so ga●e vp the Ghost Now I would know by our account what howres of the day these were as of the rest A. The Iewes did diuide their Artificiall day into 4. quarters allowing to euery quarter 3. houres accounting the first houre of the first quarter at the rising of the Sunne and the third houre of the sayde quarter they called the third houre and the third houre of the second quarter they called the 6. houre which was mid-day the third houre of the third quarter the 9. houre and the 2. houre of the 4. quarter the 11. houre and they called the 12. and last houre of the day Euentide So the Rulers sonne being healed at the 7. houre it was with vs at one of the clocke in the afternoone and the 6. hower when darknes was vpon the earth at midday with vs the 9. hower when Christ yeelded vp the Ghost 3. a clocke in the afternoone the Laborers that came at the 11. howre came at 5. of the clocke in the afternoone or an hower before Sunne-set Q. How diuided they their night A. They diuided their ● artificiall night likewise into 4 quarters called by thē the 4. watches of the night for the first 3. howres was the first watch during which time all the souldiers both young and old of any fortified Towne or Garrison were wont to watch the second third hower they called the second watch which was about midnight at which time the young souldiers onely watched and the third quarter of the night contayning also 3 houers was called the third watch in that season the souldiers of middle age did watch and the last 3. howers called the 4. watch was about the breake of day in which the old souldiees onely watched The day is accounted with vs for payments of money betweene Sunne and Sunne but for inditements of murther the day is accounted from midnight to midnight and so are fasting dayes Q. How in the more purer and auncient times from the example of the Apostles were the dayes of the weeke named since corrupte by the Heathens and called after the names of the seuen Planets or their Gods A. One or the 1. from the Sabboth two or the 2. from the Sabboth three or the 3. from the Saboth and so of the rest Our yearely Almanacks make mention which many read but few vnderstand of the Golden Number Epact Circle of the Sunne Romane Indiction and such like of which I desire to know some reasons or vse And first of the Golden Number what it is when it beginneth and why it is so called THe Golden number is a number of 19. proceeding from 1. to 19 and so beginne againe at 1. and is so called because it was sent in Golden Letters from Alexandria in Egypt to Rome and it is the number of 19. because in 19. yeares the Moone doth make all her sundry motions and changes and returneth againe to the place where shee first begunne To finde out the aforesaide Number adde 1 to the yeare of our Lorde whereof you enquire and diuide the same by 19. and the remainder shall bee the Golden number What is the Epact THe Epact is a Number not exceeding 30. because the Moon betweene change and change nueer passeth 20. dayes The Epact is thus found out multiply the Golden Number of the

of holy obedience what garments weare they that preserued their wearers from the diuell A. The garments of S. Francis as the Papists tell vs as if the diuell cold not as well know a knaue in a Fryars habit as in any other Q. VVhat is the reason of all other things that the Pope christens his Bels they hauing many times that preheminence before men A. That the sound of them might driue diuels out of the ayre cleare the skies chase away stormes tempests quench fires and giue some comfort to the very dead and the like To which purpose here the Bels ring out their owne peale En ego Campana nunquam denuntio vana Laudo deum verum plebem voco congrego elerum Diffunctos plango viuos voco fulmina frango Vex mea vox vitae voco vos ad sacra venite Sanctos collaudo tonitrus fugo funera claudo Funera plango fulgura frango sabatha pango Exicto Lentos dissipo ventos paco ceuentos Englished Behold my vses are not small That God to praise assemblies call That breke the thūder waile the dead And cleanse the aire of tempests bred With feare keep off the fiends of hell And all by vertue of my knell Q. VVhat numb was the most fatall to Rome A. The sixt number according to the verse ensuing Sextus Tarquinius Sextus Nero Sextus iste scilitet Papa Alexander 6. Semper sub sextis perdita Roma suit What other names or numbers to her woone In the sixt still she lost was Rome vndone Q. VVhat inscription or motto was that according to the fiction which Martin de Asello fixing ouer his Gate by reason of the false povating of the Painter cost him his Bishopricke A. Portapatens esto nulli claudaris honesto Where the Painter mistaking himselfe made the point at nulli and so made it Gate be open to none but shut out all honest men The Pope riding that way before Martin had corrected his inscription taking it profest knauery discarded him of his Bishoprick as it was a wonder and placed another in his house Who kept the inscription still but only altered the point and made it thus Porta patens esto nulli claudaris honesto Adding therevnto Ob vnum punctum caruit Martinus Asello Gate open to the good and shut out none For one poore point is all from Martin gone Q. There is a certaine thing that hath not the art of numeration neither knowes the order of time how it passeth and yet least wee should be ignorant or the time should deceiue vs it instructs vs both honestly A. A Clocke vpon which on thus writeth Qui nescit quo vita modo volat audiat bora Quam sit vitae breuis nos docet ille sonus Hee that would know how minutes steale away That peece vp howres that patch out the day This trusty watchman to supply our need Proclaimes our liues short span in their swift speed Q. What are the natures and dispositions of the foure Elements A. The earth is dry the water cold the ayre moyst and the fire hot Q Which is the highest of these Elements A. The fire whose nature is euer to mount vpward and if you turne it downeward it goes out thereupon Thence proceeds Saint Chrysostomes admiration that the Rayes of the Sun in nature hot in quality glorious doth shoot downeward so contrary to the fire Q What fire is that that sometimes followes and sometimes flyeth away A. An Ignus fatuus or walking fire one wherof keeps his station this time neere Windsor the pace of which is caused principally by the motion of the ayre for the swifter one runs the swifter it followes the motion of the ayre enforcing it Q. VVhat thing is that most vsefull and pretious in the world that produceth another of novse nor goodnesse at all A. Fire from whence proceedes smoake of which Lipsius writes Ita te tolle a humo vt absis a fumo Q. VVhat Coales do longest of all other preserne fire A. The Coales of Iuniper of whom it is reported that they haue kept fire a whole yeere together without supply or going out Q. VVhat is that which being the heauiest hardest of all things yet yeelds both to the extremity of fier and water A. A Stone Q. VVhat stone of all other is the greatest wonder A. The flint stone that preserues fire within it a wonderfull secret and benefit to man Q. VVhat is that which being first water afterwards assumed the form of a stone and still retaines it A. The Chrystall congealed by frost Q. What stone is that that yeelds neither to the fire nor to the hammer A. The Adamant which as our Naturalists obserue is dissolued onely by goates blood wherevpon S. Chrysostome writes though the heart of a Sinner be more harder then the Adamant yet wil the blood of Christ mollifie it Q Whether haue stones a vegitiue life or no. A. This if we doubt our Pioners and Mineralists will resolue vs who finde out by experience that although Mineralles buried deepe in the earth yet through diuers vaines and channels suck in moysture and nourishment as doe plants and trees and that they do likewise increase and grow though in a slower progression and degree then other things is probable and certaine Q. Is there a difference of prerogatiue among stones A. T' is answered there is For the stone in the Altar hath more honour then the stone in the streete For the one is kneeled vnto with deuotion the other troden on by the feet Q. Which are the most precious stones for mans vse A. The two milstones of the mill Of which the one neuer stirres and the other ne're lies still Q. VVhat birds of all other are the most gentle the most innocent A. The Doue for gentlenesse and simplicity is commended in Scripture for the Doue is among birds as the Sheepe is among beasts frō whose kind no hurt proceeds to man being a sotiable creature for his seruice of whom it is obserued that he yeelds vp his life for the sustenance of man sobbing it out with a kind of meeknesse and patience more then any other creature and for his vse there is nothing vnnecessary for our seruice in the whole composure of him his flesh being good for meate his guts for the strings of Instruments his dung to inrich the field his wooll for cloth so nothing superfluous So likewise the Doue a patient not an offensiue creature without beake or tallents of oppression hauing no other offence against their enemy the Hawke such like more then the swiftnesse of her wing according to the Poet Fello columbo caret rostro non ledit possidet innocuas puraque grana ledit Her food is graine her beake doth not offend No gall this creature hath nor no bad ende And therefore they hate the Hawke as it is said because of his beake Odimus Accipitrem quia semper vinit in armis We hate the Hauke and feare

and cranies of the earth and violently rushing out and the earth suddenly closing vp againe causeth the shaking or earthquake which is generally a fore-runner of warre Of Thunder and Lightning WHen an Exhalation hot and dry mixt with moysture is attracted into the middle Region and there inclosed in the body of a cloud now these two contraries thus included in one place together fall at variance and cannot bee reconciled but breake the prison wherein they are pent the violent out-rushing whereof maketh a noyse which wee call thunder and the fire lightning being both borne at one instant although the lightning bee the first perceiued in regard of the quicknesse of the eye before the eare Of the strange effects of Lightning THat which is dry burneth not at all that wich is moyst burneth not likewise but blasts and altereth the colour but that which is cleare is of a strange operation for it draweth vessels dry without hurting the Caske melteth the siluer without hurting the bagge breaketh the bones and hurteth not the skinne killeth the childe in the wombe without hurt to the mother It hurteth not the Law●ell tree entreth not aboue a yard into the earth such as are shadowed with the skins of Seales Sea calue● and the Eagle are safe as Pliny stories it The Auntient Aegyptians which were the first and best Astronomers haue obserued certaine yeares in a mans life to bee verie dangerous and these they name Clymacterical or stayry yeares Now a Clymactericall yeare is euery seuenth yeare of a mans life the reason is because then the course of the Planets returne to Saturne who most commonly is ●n enemy to our good and as the Moone which is the nearest and next Planet vnto vs and swiftest of course of all other passeth almost euerie seuenth day into the contrary signe of the same qualitie from whence shee came forth and so by that meanes bringeth in the Criticall dayes so Saturne which is the Planet furthest from vs and slowest of course for hee resteth in one signe so many yeares as the Moone doth dayes bringeth in likewise these Clymactericall yeares and causeth sundry mutations to follow hence it is that in the seuenth yeare children doe cast and renue their teeth Hereafter followeth certaine Clymactericall and dangerous yeares of a Mans life TThe 49. yeare composed of seuen times seuen dangerous 56. yeare to men especially borne in the night 63. yeares to those borne in the day time by reason of the drynesse of Mercurie and Venus Whereunto Octavius the Emperor seemeth to con●ent whereto this effect hee writeth to his Nephew to reioyce with him hauing passed ouer that deadly yeare enemy to old age 63 in which number the 7 and 9 do concurre as Heffman to that purpose more largely in his Booke De diebus an●nis Criticis reciteth The Criticall Dayes of a Mans life being collected throughout e●erie mo●eth are obserued these following 1 and 7 of Ianuary 2 and 4 of Frebruary 1 and 4 of March. 8 and 10 of Aprill 3 and 7 of May 10 and 15 of Iune 10 and 13 of Iuly 1 and 2 of August 3 and 30 of September 3 and ●0 of October 3 and 5 of Nouember 7 and 10 of December There are likewise in the year●more especially to be obserued 3 dangerous Mundayes to begin any businesse fall sicke or vndertake any iourney First Munday in Aprill which day Caine was borne and his brother Abel slaine Second Munday in August which day Sodom and Gommorrah were destroyed 31 Of December which day Iudas was borne that betrayed Christ. Of the 4. humors in mans body and how they raigne in their courses and first What a Humor is A Humour is a Distillation of a moyst and running body into which by the Limbecke of the liuer the meates are conuerted and diffused through the veynes and Alleys of the same for the better nourishmeut therof and are thus according to Lemnius described in his Booke De quatuor Complectionibus 1 Sanguine humor The bloud or sanguine humour is moyst and ruddy and hot the principall seate or cesterne thereof is the Liuer or Amwell head that watereth the whole Citie or body of man out of which issue forth the vitall spirits like vnto small and gentle winds that arise out of riuers and fountaines 2 Flegmaticke Humour The Phlegmaticke humour is of colour white and brackish and like vnto drops of fat his seate is chiefly in the kidneyes which separate to themselues the water from the bloud diuiding the bloud into the veines and expelling the water into vrine 3 Choller It is hote and fiery and to the taste bitter● like vnto Herbgrace or Rue and it serueth not onely to clense the guts of filth but also to califie the Liuer and to preserue the blood from putrifaction 4. Melancholy The Melancholy Humor is blacke and earthly resembling the lees of blood and hath his seate in the splene of which one thus writeth The Sanguine causeth cheerefulnes The Melancholy despaire The Collericke is churlish The Phlegmaticke is faire Euery one of these Humours raigne 6. howers blood is predominant from 9 of the clocke at night till 3 of the morning Choller from 3 of the clocke in the morning till nine of the same day Melancholly from nine till three in the afternoone and Phlegme from three in the afternoone till nine at night Also bloud hath his dominion in the Spring Choller in the Summer Melancholy in Autumne and Phlegm in Winter as Lemnius thus further in his sayd Booke testifieth Hereunto are annexed certaine verses describing the person and qualitie of that childe of Chase or Lady PECVNIA written long since by that Gentleman of quality I.T. and as something pertinent to our purpose hereinto inserted SHee is a Lady of most matchlesse carriage Wedded to none though saught of all in marriage Shee may be kistt yet neither washt nar clipt And if you wooe not warie soone ore-slipt Shee may belong and yet bee honest too To many Marchants spight they all cā do Who ere atchieues her speake her nore so fayre She le not stay long before she take the aire She le stay with no poore man her states so great A rich man may her for a time entreate Shee goes in cloth of siluer cloth of golde Off●uer all worths and values manif●lde But whē she goes in golden robes best d●●bt Then shee 's suspected most to be most light Shee needs no Physicke to recouer health For she 's still currant as rich in wel●h Some Irish Lady borne we may suppose Because shee runs so fast and neuer goes If shee be wrong'd in name and ill abide it Of all men Iustice Touchstone must decide it Shee that thus does and all doe thus to gaine her Being so atchieu'd shee is but slipperie bolde And will be gone vnlesse by force you straine her Changing her humour to another mould By pence and halfe pence and such little crummes Which of themselues so