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A16807 VVits priuate vvealth Stored with choise commodities to content the minde. Breton, Nicholas, 1545?-1626? 1612 (1612) STC 3708; ESTC S104693 14,081 30

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In the repentance of sinne sorrow bringeth comfort Where pride is poyson to power and will an enimy to patience there enuy can endure no equality til death put an end to desire Greater is the griefe to loose then neuer to haue and to see the fall of vertue then the death of nature Irreuocable is the losse of time and incomparable the griefe of ingratitude but the abuse of loue is abhorred in nature When a Dogge howles an Owle singes a Woman scoldes and a Pig cries whether for a penny is the best musicke Full hearts cannot weepe and swallowed sighes make swolne brests while wisdome couereth woes till death couer wretchednesse Who laboureth for knowledge makes a benefite of time but he that loueth vertue lookes after eternitie The instruction of truth makes the witte gracious while the practise of Craft makes the heart impious He that makes beautie a Starre studies false Astronomie and he that is soundly in Loue needes no other purgatorie The depth of passion tryeth the height of patience where if witte bridle not the sences nature will reueale her imperfection The remembrance of vanities is a reuiuing of miseries where the looking glasse of life becomes an houre-glasse of death The exercise of venery is the Cow-path to beggerie and he that diminisheth his stock may goe to the hedge for a stake The Landlords prodigality makes the tenants profit and a proud beggar is a dogged Rascall A Cat may loose a Mouse and catch her againe but he that looseth time can neuer recouer it When rich men die they are buried with pompe but when good men die they are buried with teares Bloody actions makes fearefull visions while the ioy of peace is the spirits Paradice VVhen al vnder the Sunne is vanitie where hath vertue her dwelling in the world but only in the heart of the elect whose loue is onely in the heauens An intemperate spirit spoiles the body and a proud heart giues a wound to the soule The shāme of wit is folly and the shame of nature sin Who trauaileth out of the world to seeke the truth of heauens historie if he be not assured of grace will make but an vnhappy iourney Comfortable is the graue where death is the end of grief but ioyful is that faith that finds the life of eternity A Knight that dares not fight hath honor in iest a marchant without mony may aduenture for nothing The pinching of the body makes a stincking breath and straight shooes fill the feet full of cornes Women with childe long for many things but all the world longs for mony A great wit may haue a weake body and a great head but a little wit The Dolphin is held the swiftest fish in the Sea but the thought of a man hath no comparison in the world The Tyger is said to be the cruellest beast in the world but an Vsurer vpon a bond will goe to the Deuill for mony A Maiden blush is an excellent coulour and a virtuous wit makes a Virgin honorable A constant Louer is an admirable Creature but the man of wealth goes through the world Offices are sweet in the nature of gaine but the abuse of an oath is the burthen of conscience A sore eye is euer running and a Gossips tongue is euer babling Crosse pathes many times puts a man out of his way and crosse fortunes many waies puts a man out of his wits Great windes are dangerous at Sea so is a Iudges breath to an offender The Philosophers stone hath mockt a number of Students and Loue hath troubled a world of Idle people Virginity is precious while it is purely reapt but is it catch a cracke the beauty is gone The eyes growe dimme when they come to spectacles and it is colde in vallies when a snowe lyeth on the Mountaines The sting of a Scorpion is onely healed with her bloud and where beauty wounds loue makes the cure Emprisonment and death are the miseries of nature and the Sergeants Mace is a hellish weapon A Childe that feares not the rod will hardly proue gracious and a man that feares not God will bee in hell ere he be aware Elixars are great restoratiues but much Phisicke is offensiue to nature A Penne without inke writes a very blancke Letter and a Purse without money makes many a colde heart Stolne Venison is sweete so the stealer can scape but if he be catcht he will pay for his hunting The Anglers sport is full of patience and if he loose his hooke he makes a faire fishing A showre of Raine doth well in a Drought but when Dust turnes to Durt the house is better then the high-way A little Salt seasons a great pot a little poyson kils a world of people Iewels are as they are esteemed and there is nothing forced that is welcome A little seed will sow a great ground and a Snuffe of a Candle will set a whole house on fire The want of necessaries breakes the heart of an honest man and to be beholding to a Dog is a death to a good minde When the Rich pray on the poore and the poore pray for the Rich there is great differnce in praying A scolde and a foole must be answered with silence while wisedoms words are worth the writing in gold Philosophie is a sweet study and Historie are sometime worth the reading but the Bible in all excellence puts downe all the Bookes in the world Much reading makes a ready Scholler but the guift of nature doth much in Arte. A Foole and a knaue cannot take thought while an honest heart is full of sorrow A far Trauailer seeeth much but he that goes to heauen makes a happy iourney The Kings of the earth are rich in golde but blessed are the soules that are rich in grace The aire is often cleansed by lightning but till the world change it will neuer be cleane from sinne An escape from danger is comfortable but to keepe out of it is wisdome He that makes an Epicure of his mind makes a Gull of his witte for time is precious to the vnderstanding spirit A Diamond may be little and yet of great price but the grace of God is more worth then the whole world Fancy and fashion trouble many idle people but the study of Diuinitie rauisheth the soules of the elect Cockes of the game will by nature fight and a heart of Oake will burst ere it bend The sight of the Sea will a fray a faint heart while the Sailers care but a little for the Land The cryes of Fooles make a foule noyse while the hearts of the honest bleede inwardly May-games and iestes fill the world full of mirth but the feeling of grace fils the soule full of ioy A Flie feedes a Swallow that will choake a man and that which kils a Spider will comfort a man Th Stone and the Gowte followe the rich but death where he commeth makes a swoope with all persons A poore man in his cottage is
is a rich iewell and a silent woman is a strange creature Nature is subiect to imperfection but an Atheist is a horrible creature He that lighs in a whirle poole is in danger of drowning and the losse of liberty is the sorrowe of nature A rich Court is a goodly sight but he that lookes vp to heauen will not care for the world when olde men are wilfull their wits are out of temper and when yong men are wise they are in the way to honour An olde sore tries the skill of a Phisition and if he get a name he will quickly be rich The fish of the Riuer is not affraid of drowning and if he play with a bate it may cost him his life An Asse hath long eares and a Fox a long taile but a tongue will be so long that it will ouer-reach out of measure A neighing horse is not good for a theefe nor a questing Spaniell will make a good setter A Dogge will reioyce at the sight of his Maister when perhaps his Mistresse will frowne at his comm●ng home The bones of the dead breake the hearts of the liuing when a poore Gamster looseth his money The kindenes of the heart is tryed in aduersitie and the dogg ednes of the minde in the hight of prosperity When the Hare is in chase feare makes her runne but when the hounds are at a falt she hath time to get away He that plaies the Rogue in the morning may be a villaine till night but if he be sorry when he goes to bed he may rise an honest man He that is wounded in the heart hath made an end of his daies but he that hath a wound in the Soule knowes not when to end his sorrowe A looking-glasse will make a foole proud of his beautie but an houre-glasse will make a wise man remember his end The varietie of Flowers makes a Spring beautifull but the faire haruest makes a fat barne Tobacco smoake is very costly but the ashes of it are good for a galde backe A proud Mechanique will looke ouer a Marchant and a rich Churle will looke like Bull beefe The winde is weake yet it beares downe great Oaks and water is weake yet it swallowes vp great ships A worme-eaten nut is not worth the cracking and a crackt iewell not worth the wearing Mony-masters are the pride of the market but if you part without a pot you are no good fellow A subtill Bowler will haue a shrewd ayme but if hee misse his byace his bowle may deceiue him A dropping nose had neede of a handkercher and a splay footed woman is a beastle sight Time is neuer idle but not euer well imployd when wit without gouernment fals to fast vpon folly he that hath many wounds looseth much blood and he that hath many quarrells will haue little quiet Vnkindenes is a cut to an honest heart but a Dogged wife is the hearts torture He that saltes his meate will keepe it from stinking he that mortifies his flesh wil keepe it from much sin He that hath an ill face hath neede of good wit but money couereth many imperfections VVhen the windes are downe the Sea will be calme but quarrels begun are not easily ended VVhere there is much Carrion there wil be store of Crowes and at the buriall of a Rich man there will be store of beggers Threescore yeares and ten are a mans faire age but after foure-score his strength is gone To wrastle with a begger a man may get but a lowse and to brabble with a Scolde will make but a foule noyse Many hands makes quicke worke but one is enough in a purse Good hearbes makes wholesome broath but a filthy weede among them may marre all A VVinters Summer makes an vnkindly haruest and a Summers VVinter is not healthfull for a man A Cuckolde is the scorne of marriage but a VVittoll is a beast in nature A finicall fellow is like an Vsher of a Dauncing Schoole and a demure Mistresse like the picture of hipocrisie Three chiefe things a Trauailer had neede to haue a care of his Tongue his Purse and his middle finger Three other chiefe things had all men neede to looke to the soule the body and the state To conuerse with Children is got little experience but to talke with fooles is the abuse of wit Reuenge is the villanie of nature and Tirannie the horror of reason What a iest is it in the nature of reuerence when men must put off their hats while their Maisters are pissing Vse makes perfection in many things else could not the hang-man be so nimble at the halter A skilfull Phisition knowes how to vse his Patient and a cunning Lawyer to doe with his Clyent He that hath a mint of money and an idle Woman to spend it let him feede all her humours and he shall soone see an end of it He that reckoneth his Chickins before they be hatcht may misse of his broode when the Henne leaues the neast When Geese flie together they are knowne by their cackling when Gossips doe meete they will be heard All earthly things haue an end but the torments of the wicked are endles In great extremities is tryed the greatest friendship but when mans helpe faileth God is a sweet comforter The miseries of the world are many but Gods mercies are infinite Hollow windes are a signe of raine and a long consumption is incurable The Gowte and the stone are two tickling diseases but the pox is a slight cure Hell Gates and a whores aporne are euer open for wicked guests To the faithfull there is no damnation and to the damned no saluation A crafty knaue needs no broker and a snarling Curre will bite behinde Vnder simplicity is hidden much subtilty and the Crocodiles teares are the death of the trauailer The camelion liueth onely in the aire and the Salamander liues onely in the fire To traficke with vanitie is to runne into miserie and had iwist is an idle speech The world goes hard with pride when a Ladie lies at a red Lattis True Knights make Ladies and counterfaites marre them Neede makes a heauie shift when a man pawnes his cloathes for his dinner When Taylors beganne to meate Lordes landes by the yeard then beganne gentilitie to goe downe the winde When vanitie bringes toyes to idlenesse let wit beware of foolishnesse When a Souldiours pay is most in prouant he will hardly be led into a sharpe peece of seruice He that makes holliday of euery day makes an idle weekes worke and he that labours on the Saboath will neuer haue his worke to prosper A Schollers commons make a short dinner and yet he may be in more health then an Epicure An ill blast of winde will spoyle a young plant and a bitter frost is bad for fruite A poore man shuts his doore to keepe out the winde but a rich man shuts his doore to keepe out beggers A kindely Colyer is euer besmeered and a Smith and a Glasse-maker