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A02909	A Helpe to memory and discourse with table- talke as musicke to a banquet of wine : being a compendium of witty, and vsefull propositions, problemes, and sentences / extracted from the larger volumes of physicians, philosophers, orators and poets, distilled in their assiduous and learned obseruations, and which for method, manner, and referent handling may be fitly tearmed, A Second misselany, or helpe to discourse.	Basse, William, d. ca. 1653.; Phillips, E.	1630 (1630)	STC 13051.3; ESTC S3795	55,194	175

vpon his owne shore arose such a Tempest that it dasht in pieces and draue the Shippes all out of the harbour and withall two Ship-wrights hewing of a Mast at euery stroke dropped blood out of the tree an ominous portent and after fearefully succeeding First losing his Crowne and after his life at Pom●r●t Castle slaine by Sir Pierce of Exon and 8. men more that he brought with him whereof King Richard slew foure of them Richard the Third first affrighted by dreames and after slaine in Bosworth Field where by force and number beaten from his hor●● he bit the ground with his teeth and to● it with his hands and in contempt of death and man died as if he would haue carried his kingdome with him and so much for example in this kinde Q. Which are the most dangerous yeeres r●puted in a mans whole life A. Euery seuenth yeere of a mans life is noted to be dangerous some hold the ninth yeere very dangerous and by this account the 18.27 c. but the most dangerous yeere of all is 63 for that both accounts doe meet in this number namely 9. times 7. and 7. times 9. either of which numbers make 63. the most dangerous yeere of all Certaine Diuine Precepts or Aduertisements that a Wise-man first obserued himselfe and after left them to his Sonne and Friends 1. If a weaker man then thy selfe doth wrong thee spare him if a stronger then spare thy selfe 2. Gods hand is heauiest on the Conscience when it is lightest on the carkasse if lie suffer it to surfet on pleasure till death 3. The Vsurer and the Broker may bee ●ompared to two milstones that grind the ●oore to powder come not therefore vnder ●heir Sayles 4. Obserue how Pharaohs dreame is verified amongst vs in these dayes that the ●eane Kine eate vp the fat for Gods leane blessings which are riches and pleasures blessings of his left hand eate vp the fat which are Grace and Religion blessings of his right 5. Good Lawes without execution stand like the picture of St. George with his hand alwayes vp but neuer striking 6. Pleasures doe not alwayes follow a man liuing but euer leaue him dying 7. A vertuous man is famous on the earth glorious in the graue immortall in heauen 8. Christ calleth the godly Kinsmen be they neuer so poore but the rich scorn them be they neuer so honest so proud is the seruant aboue his Master 9. It is miserable for a bold sinner to meet with a cold Preacher 10. Two things out of euery Sermon are to be noted first that which thou didst not know Secondly that which speaketh to thy conscience for by the one thou shal● increase knowledge by the other lessen thy vices 11. The Vsurers money to a man in time of necessity is like cold water to a hot Ague in time of extremity 12. He that drinkes on follies cup shall haue small cause to licke his lippes after it 13. Feare doth not more multiply euils then Faith diminish them 14. It is good so to diet the body that the soule may be fatned 15. One sin openeth the dore for many vertues to flye out 16. A man would haue Teachers doe as they teach so God would haue hearers doe as they heare for else the hearers shall be no more saued by hearing then the Preachers by preaching 17. Lending was ordained to be a staffe or support to the borrower now Vsury hath turned this staffe into a Serpent 18. The man that hath a quiet conscience is like to him that hath a good wife he is alwayes sure of peace at home 19. In Prayer be not like the Pharise in popular ostentation but pray in secret for he prayes with a witnesse that so prayes with out a Witnesse Precepts or Aduices concerning Marriage 1 Woo not by Embassadours 2 Make not thy friend too familiar with thy wife 3 Conceiue not an idle Ielousie being a Fyre once kindled not easily put out 4 Affect him not that would ill possesse thee 5 Blaze not her beauty with thy owne tongue 6 If thy estate be weake and poore marry farre off and quickly if otherwise firme and rich at home and with deliberation 7 Be aduised before thou conclude for though thy errour may teach thee wit t is vncertaine whether euer thou shalt againe haue occasion to practise it for marriage is like a stratagem in warre wherein a man can erre but once 8 Marry not for Gentility without her support because it can buy nothing in the market without money 9 Make thy choyce rather of a ver●●●●s then a learned wife Esteeme rather what shee is of her●selfe then what shee should bee by inheritance 11 In tactam quaeris Intactam esto Be that example to thy wife that thou wouldest haue her to imitate for he that strikes with the point may be content to be beaten with the pommell 12 Shee whose youth hath pleased thee despise not her age 13 That thou mayst be beloued bee amiable 14 Sayle not in this Sea without a compasse for a wicked woman brings a man sooner to repentance then suretiship 15 T is the greater dispraise to children to be like to wicked Parents 16 T is more torment to be iealous of a mans wife then resolued of her dishonesty and more misery that a man may be assured of her vice that way but cannot bee of her vertue 17 True Chastity doth not onely consist in keeping the body from vncleanenesse but in keeping the minde from sinne and she may be more a maid that hath been muisht against her will then shee that hath but onely wished amisse A Wise-man was wont to say that by marriage foure Ioyes most vndoubtedly accrew vnto the husband 1 A wife 2 Alliance and friends 3 Patrimony 4 Children all strong walls and Bullwarkes to fence a man But now see saith another which of these are firme and which fleeting 1. for the wife no man will deny but that shee stickes firmely till death 2. For friends they depend vpon fortune for who neuer lackes shall neuer want a friend And who in want a hollow friend doth try Directly seasons him his enemy Lastly by death many times friends are cut off for portion without wary gouernment charge increasing that quickly decreaseth Then see the Anker that remaines alone The Wife and Children Friends and Portion none The Louers complaint written by a Gentleman of quality He is starke mad who-euer sayes That he hath beene in loue an houre Not for that loue so soone decayes But that it can ten in lesse space deuource Who will beleeue if I sweare That I haue had the Plague a yeere Who would not laugh at me if I should say I saw a flash of Powder burne a day O what a trifle is a Heart If once into loues hands it come Al other griefs allow a part to other griefs And aske themselues but some They come to vs but vs loue drawes He swallowes vs and neuer chawes By him

dimme but increaseth to his perfectnesse as hee recouereth to his health with which our Poet thus accordeth in his comparison As a compassionate Turcoyse that doth tell By looking pale the wearer is not well Many other precious Iemmes there are that lose their vertue and splendor worne vpon the finger of any polluted person and therfore lewd and vncleane liuers such as defile their bodies with women neuer adorne themselues with these dissenting iewels which would blush at their shame and betray their guiltinesse A rich inuesture saith one they are but of small vse in our dayes hardly meeting with a finger that spoyles them not In the end of August the Moone increasing there is found in the Swallowes belly a stone of excellent vertue for the cure of the falling sicknesse and which dries vp the thin and glutinous humours whereupon it is chiefly ingendred There is likewise found in the head of an old Toad a stone very precious against all inflamations and swellings as bytings of venemous beasts poysonings and such like Likewise there is sometimes found in the head of a Carpe a stone that stancheth all bleeding at the nose Hereafter follow certaine Epigrams Riddles and witty Positions Epitaph 1. Vpon Matilda Augusta daughter to Henry the first of England wife to Henry the fourth Emperor mother to Henry the second of England Magna Ortis maiorque viro sed maxima prole Hic iacet Henrici filia sponsa parens English Great by thy birth but greater by thy bed Yet by the issue greater then both th' other To dignifie all which it may be sed Here lies a Henries daughter wife and mother 2. A thing there is hath neither fl●sh nor bone Yet of the liuing once depending on So dry it is no creature can it cate Yet may stened by some Art it words can speake It workes not treason first like traitors many But i● beheaded ere it can doe any And then it falls to action without rest Whispers with secrets of a Ladies brest Conuayes a message be it farre or neere Five hundred miles from hand vnto the eare It faster binds by dashes and by blots T●en doth a Cable with a hundred knots Thus and much more it works by slight of hand Now what this is I faine would vnder stand Resol A quill of which is made a pen. 3. h. b.f. Musca a ●lie h. b.f. Musica musi●ke 1. With head I run with foot head I fly 2 With these intire I musicks sweet notes try 4. In Tibiam Non ego continueè morior si spiritus exit Nam re dit assiduè quamuis sape recedat Englished All creatures that subsist and liue by breath When it departs is life for euer fled But mine is contrary that brings no death But as it wastes is new breath'd in bred 5. A Harpe Thus the Harpe sounds out it selfe A Silent tree I was and mute did stand That now doth speake sweet tunes to euery hand My life was death my death to me was life For heere with nature art begins her strife That since in life by her I might not liue Art after death a life to me did giue 6. Q. What is the ground and vse of Musicke and wherein doth it consist A. It consists in these fiue keyes or words turned into these two Verses Ve releuet mi-serum fatum solitosque La-bores Eua sic dulcis Musica noster amor Englished Sweet Musicke doth refresh and ease those cares To which by Eues offence we al are heires 7. Si caput est currit ventrem coniunge volabit Adde pedem comedes sine ventre bibes ca. ven pes Resol mus musca muscetum mustum A mouse a Flie Muscadel Englished With head I run with head and belly flie With foot thereto am food and for the dry Without my belly drinke all this am I. 8. Sir Tho. Moores Epig. vpon a poore Physicion TV te sers medicū nos te plus esse fatemur Vna tibi plus est litera quàm medico Englished Thou tearm'st thy selfe Physician and would'st be And yet thy Art and Skill both keepe thee poore That I can hardly yeeld thee that to be And yet I will allow thee something more Not Medicus a Physician but Mendicus a Begger A word of a letter more 9. In somnum Sponte mea veniens varias ostendo figuras Engo metus varios nullo discrimine veri Sed me nemo videt nisi sua lamina claudit Vpon Sleepe Of selfe accord I come and fill the minde With thousand toyes and fancies I deuise But few thereof for truth I noted finde And none sees thē or me but winkin● eies 10. Aliud Dum nihil ipse vides facio te multa videre Lumina ni claudat me quoque nemo videt Thou seeing nothing many things I show Which but with closed eyes thou canst not know II. Ter tria dant septem septem sex sex quoque 〈◊〉 sunt Octo dant quatuor quatuor faciunt tibi septem Haec numeres rectò faciunt tibi milli● quinque It is vnderstood of the letters in the words for the 2 first words ter tria yeeld seuen letters the word septem six the word sex 3. Octo 4. quatuor 7. millia 5. though it signifie 1000. 12. Vpon a Hammer or Mallet THe strength of all my body 's in my head With what I fight am neuer vanquished My head is great my body is but small A Hammer or a Mallet most me call 13. Mulae Asinaeque duos imponit seruulus vtres Impletos vino signémque vt vidit Ase●●am Pondere defessam vestigia figere tarda Mula rogat c. Englished A Mule Asse did each a vessel beare Repleat with wine the Asse slow creeping on The Mule did thus regreet My parēt deer Why doest so heauy passe and make such mone If thou one measure vnto me doe lend Then twice thy Burthen's borne vpon my backe But out of mine if I to thee one send Then both of vs doe beare one equal packe Now learn'd Arithmetician I would know Vnder what burthen each of these did goe Resol The Mule bore 7. and the Asse 5. 14. In clauem Virtutes magnas de viribus affero paruis Pando domos clausàs iterum concludo petentes Seruo domum domino sed rursum seruor ab illo Vpon a Key Great vertue I afford in substance small To shut and open when mine Owner will Whom faithfull I attend at becke at call When many times the Theefe doth curse my skill 15. Sunt duo quae duo sunt sunt duo quae duo non sunt Quae duo si non sunt sunt duo nulla duo Englished There 's two that are not two yet are not one Which two another saith are two none The wedded paire 16. Dictio lassat equum mel comedit abstrahe primam Tolle sed inde duas remanebit amica luto su● Cursus versus sus The Horse for Race the Beare for hunny sweet

which as say some Moses seemes to assent where it is said in Genesis Let the earth bring forth the greene herbe and trees bring forth fruit according to their kinde The Egyptians thinke it was created in Summer most in the Spring Likewise they vary about the Planets and what houses they were created in some thinke when the Sunne was in Leo the Moone in Cancer and so of the rest Which may be somewhat more confirmed by this necessary rule following for the falling of Easter day which is As vpon the 10 day of the first moneth from the creation which is March at the coniunction of the Sunne and the Moone next the Equinoctiall the Paschall Lambe was chosen out of the flocke and kept till the 14. day or full Moone so the tenth day of the first moneth being Palm sunday our Sauiour entred into Ierusalem and the 14 day suffered his passion so as the next Sunday after the 14. day of the Moone or full Moon in the moneth of March is alwayes Easter day and probable to confirme the former supposition Q. But of this what shall I determine A. That by the wisedome mercy and goodnesse of God it was created in the fulnesse of time in what part his wisedome thought most meet the admirable composition and frame whereof that wee daily contemplate and behold with the eyes of our vnderstanding with the diuersity and distinction of all the creatures therein they and all these for the seuerall vses and seruice of man and man onely for the seruice of God Q. Wherefore then since the world was only made for man for man onely knowes the vs● thereof are the dayes of his pilgrimage v●●on earth contracted from the length of many cubits to a span-long in comparison of the trebled date and extension of bruit beasts senslesse and irrationall creatures as the Hart the Daw the Oake Rauens Rockes and such like most of which haue trebled dates beyond the short period of mans life For concerning the Hart one of the most doubtfull of whons notwithstanding Hist●ries make mention How Alexander desirous to aepproue to posterity the long life of this creature to that end caused to be put certaine golden collers about diuers of their neckes with the time of their dates some of which were found 100. yeeres after his death in full vigour and liuelihood not perceiued to decline or grown into age but continuing and lasting when the life of man doth vanish like a shadow like a flower when neither Absolons beauty Samsons strength Salomons wisedome Asaels swiftnesse Croesus wealth Alexanders liberality Hectors strength Homers eloquence Augustus fortune Traianes iustice Ciceroes zeale one nor all of these can protect it but that hee falls from the graue of the wombe to the wombe of the graue cut downe like a flower as these verses seeme to import Est hominum status per florem significatus Vt flos cito perit sic homo puluis erit Mans life is fitly semblanc'd by the flowers Which flourish now and fade ere many ho●res Therefore this inequality considered may it not be thought iniustice and wrong to man in this disposure and if not by what consequent or reason may he settle his appeasement For as the Poet If death destroy vs quite we haue great wrong Since for our seruice al things else were wrought That Dawes and Trees and Rockes should last so long When we must at an instant turne to naught A. By this Because the wise Creator fore-saw that these in their dislolution though neuer so long protracted should altogether perish but man at his end should but renew a better nay an immortall life and therefore what he is abridged of here he hath amends for hereafter Q. Wherein consists the naturall life of man that it so soone doth cease and so quickly wheele off from the thing of so vnstable continuance A. In heat and moisture which daily wasting themselues to keep life afoot are againe daily replenished in vs by our meat and drinke for by our meat is our naturall heat maintained and by our drinke the radicall moisture daily replenished Q. Why should the Epicure then say Let vs eate and drinke for to morrow wee shall dye when by eating and drinking our life is strengthened and renewed and why may not the life of man by this moderate and seasonable supplie be preserued continually at least-wise the life of our fore-fathers A. Because as the Sea hath bounds which it cannot passe so is there to euery life a period set Hitherto shalt thou come and no further which though it may be shortened as it is in the Psalme The bloud-thirsty and deceitfull man shall not liue forth halfe his daies yet can it in no wise be prolonged further at leastwise prorogued euer for set all other aduersaries aside Time it selfe shall at last bring in age whose antipathy shal be such that it shal quench thy heat and dry vp thy moisture for be thou neuer so well fenced comes death at last and with a little pinne bores thorow thy Castle wall and farewell man But of this formerly more at large Q. What were the opinions of the Egyptian Sages and Philosophers concerning the longitude or breuity of mans life and whereupon did they ground their reasons A. They were conceited that men did liue according to the increasing or diminishing of the heart some thinking the heart to grow and increase till 50. yeers and that it did augment euery yeere 2. drachmes weight grown to the full bignes did again diminish euery yeere as much vntil it came to nothing whereupon ensued death Q. What are the opinions of some more moderne Physicians for the naturall length or shortnesse thereof vpon the dependencie of Complexion either good or euill A. Some thinke that the more better complexion as those of the Sanguine bee long in growing old because they haue much heat and humidity That the melancholy waxeth soone old because they be cold and dry and as touching the feminine sex they become sooner old then the masculine Hipocrates reporteth that female children in their mothers wombes are formed in seuen moneths and then after grow slowlier then men but borne grow faster and become sooner wise and sooner old for the feeblenesse of their body and manner of life being for the most part idle is an inducement to old age Q. Whether are the tall or low of stature according to the coniectures of some learned of longest health or life A. Some thinke the shortest statures because their vitall spirits are more strong and nimble imparting their liuelihood with more vigor in their shorter circuit then in the more spacious compasse others again that they are more durable because the Cedar many times is sooner blasted with a tēpest then the shrubs others are of a contrary opinion that the taller limbes haue the more temperate humours and complections that fumes not so much do offend the braine because the stomacke and it are more separate

〈…〉 Thy Wife shall bee as the fruitfull 〈…〉 d lastly herby thou hast found out 〈…〉 uardian for thy house and goods 〈…〉 er of thy Seruants a comforter in 〈…〉 nd misery and the full accom 〈…〉 of thy ioy and felicity Away there 〈◊〉 ye haters of women for it is verified 〈◊〉 by the Oracle of God that they are 〈◊〉 dfull necessary behouefull The Author●●●y whereof without further question here ●eales vp the controuersie And as another saith He that hath no wife is as a man vnbuilt wanteth one of his ribbes is like Ionas in the middest of the Sea ready to be ouerwhelmed with euery surge and billow but then comes a wife like a ship and wafts him ashore and so saues him from perishing Of whom the Poet thus further addes Prima fuit mulier patuit cui ianua lethi Per quam vitaredit prima fuit Mulier English As by a Woman entred Death by sinne So by a Woman Life and Grace came in Q. What was the Wise-mans counsell for the choyce of a Wife A. Non solùm est oculis ducenda sed auribus Vxor Not to choose a wife by the eye that is for beauty a brittle and fading dowry but by the care that is from the good report and commendation of others Q. What comparison haue the Ancients made betwixt the Woman and the Ribbe and what reasons haue they thereupon framed for their much Loquacity and babbling A These That first as the Ribbe is a bone hard crooked and inflexible so is a Woman in her will like the forme thereof crooked and peruerse and hardly inclining to the desire of her husband and for their much loquacity hereupon they ground their reason That as if you put a company of bones or ribbes into a bagge they will rattle and clatter together but if you put certaine lumpes of earth therein the metall of mans creation they meet without noyse or iarring violence But we pursue this argument no further because we haue formerly toucht vpon the same in another kind and place Q. Who was hee that had that one woman that was to him both mother sister and wife A. Euphorbus of whom the verse follows Me Pater è nata genuit mihi iungitur illa Sic soror coniux sic fuit illa Parens Q. What is the true law of friendship A. To loue our friend as our selfe and neither more nor lesse but so to which purpose is here inserted a story of a certaine wise woman that had but one onely sonne whose society in the way of friendship many desired to him she gaue three Apples willing him to giue them to his three friends when they were hungry in the way to be cut diuided among them In the doing wherof the first cuts his Apple in two in equall parts giuing this lesse to the womans sonne and reseruing the greater part vnto himselfe The second likewise vnequally diuided his but yet gaue the bigger to this womans sonne and kept the lesser for himselfe but the third diuided his equally reseruing iust the one halfe that he gaue which being told to his mother she bade him choose the last for his associate because the first was vniust to another the second to himselfe and he onely vpright in his diuision Q. Who was hee that first forbade Priests marriage and whereupon did he afterwards alter that constitution A. P. Greg. 1. was the first that proceeded in that restraint But when afterwards hee heard to be found the heads of 6000. infants that had beene drowned in the riuer Tiber he then sighing repelled his decree and said It is better to marry then burne Q. Whence proceeds it that those creatures that are most vsefull and beneficiall to man are so fruitfull and plenteous whereas those other wilde rauenous and cruell are more rare and retired A. This proceeds meerely from the prouidence of God and his goodnesse to mankind for otherwise how would it be it there should be as many wolues as sheep which though killed and eaten daily are notwithstanding plentifull as diuers others of his good creatures whom he multiplieth aboue measure As for example likewise The Hare whom all doe hunt and pursue yet her kinde is not diminished in regard of her fruitfulnesse which is such that when she is with young shee againe coupleth hauing within her some of a former maturity already hairy others naked without their furre others not yet formed and yet others conceiuing whereas the Lyon a cruel creature brings forth but one in her whole life time Q. What little creature is that that hath the softest body but the hardest teeth of all other A. The white worme the body whereof is more soft then wooll yet with her teeth doth she pierce the hardest Oake Q. What Artificers are those that haue most Thieues come vnder their hands A. Not Taylors nor Myllers as the old saying is but Barbers for euery thiefe and Knaue to disguise themselues falls vnder their hands Q. What was S. Chrysostomes opinion concerning Dancing A That where dancing was there was the Diuell neither saith hee to that end did God giue vs our feet so want only to abuse them For if we shall answer for euery idle word shall we not likewise for euery lasciuious and idle motion of the body which tend onely to folly and lust Hereupon was annexed a story of a certaine dancer whose ambitious actiuity was such that forsaking the ground hee would needs shew his trickes in the Ayre to the which purpose hauing there fastned a Rope hee beginning after his accustomed manner to caper and dance his footing failed him and downe he fell whereat some laughed when among the rest a Foole not standing farre off fell a weeping of whom a reason being required he thus answered I weepe because Jam counted a foole yet haue more wit then this Dancer because I know that it is written in the Psalme that not the Ayre but the Earth is giuen vnto the sonnes of men vpon which I content my selfe to tread not atttempting further as Icarus and Dedalus and some others as wel as this fellow that hath payed for his presumption Q. What two things are those that many desir● before they haue them and when once possest with a greater desire would bee depriued thereof againe A. Old age and Marriage the latter whereof hath oft beene compared to a Feast where those that are within and full would faine come out and those that are without empty would faine come in Q. In what things doth laudable Old age most solace and make glad it selfe A. In the remembrance of an honest fore-passed life and in the hope of a better n●●re succeeding Q. Whence was it that of old Bacchus or the God of Wine was pictured like a Childe A. Thence it was because the drinking of wine puts care and troubles out of the minde and in stead thereof fills it with mirth and lightnesse making men free from sorrow louiall

but howsoeuer we conclude these arguments of small validity because Death lookes not so high that hee passeth by the low nor so low that hee passeth by the high but leuels equally at both alike as that more high Prouidence guides the hand from which there is no euasion Q. Whether were the yeeres of th●●●ncient Patriarches when they liued eight or nine hundred yeeres of the length of our yeeres with vs or so short as some haue imagined that tenne of theirs made but one of ours or an hundred of theirs but ten of ours A. Of equall length and parity with ours finished by the course of the Sunne and for further proofe hereof the Scriptures affirme that in the 600. yeere of Noahs life in the second moneth a●d 27. day of the moneth the flood came now if the yeere were but 36. dayes so little a yeere must either haue no moneths or it must haue but three dayes in a month to make twelue moneths in a yeere after that computation And as in this so likewise it may be inferred in diuers other places to proue that their yeers had their equall longitudes and continuance with ours Q. What accidents or other remarkeable consequence of time and place haue followed the day and houre of the weeke since the creation of Adam as I haue seen it recorded in an ancient manuscript but of what probability I aue●re not A. That as vpon the 25. day of the moneth of March the first month from the creation the 6. day of the week 6. houre of the day Adam was created brake the Commandements the seed of the woman was promised he for disobedience banished out of Paradise So the same day of the moneth the same houre of the day Cain slue his brother Abel the promise was renewed vnto Abrahā Isaac was to be offred vp in sacrifice the message by the Angell to the virgin Mary our Sauior Christ was conceiued deliuered suffered his passion on Mount Caluary the same place where Adam was buried that the second Adam might there by his obedience make good to man what the first Adam lost by disobedience and sin that the Crosse whereupon he died was a part of the same tree from which Adam plucked the forbidden fruit But of the certainty hereof I can auouch no warrant Q. We reade in the Scripture after Cai● had slaine his brother Abel that hee was our●● to be a vagabond and runnagate vpon the face of the earth and that he had a marke set vpon him that no man might slay him yet after it is said that he built a City and dwelt at the East side of Eden now I would know what was the end of Cain How if he were a housholder a Citizen he was a runnagate And if hee built a City who were his workmen what Masons and Carpenters had for it is thought by some there were not as that time aboue fiue or six persons in the whole world neither are there more nominated in the Scripture A. In that primitiue age of the world men liued long for Adam his father liued 930. yeeres and some are of opinion that he liued the longer by reason that he knew the vertue nature and operation of euery beast and herbe plant as well as to name them and could apply them wherein they were most seruiceable to his vse Now it is not improbable that Cain in his longinquity of life might wander foure or fiue hundred yeeres and in his latter age build a City which might bee caused out of his feare for before that guiltinesse of conscience that he had no man intrencht himselfe within walles or bulwarkes neither feared the violence of man or beast And for his worke-men they might be many for in the latter end of his age it may not bee thought but his children and his childrens children might be many generations and enow to build and inhabit a City though Moses onely names but some principall parties And for his death wee leaue it as doubtfull though the Hebrewes doe report that Lamech being led a hunting being blinde by his sonne Tubalcaine shooting at wilde beasts kild Cain in the thicket vnawares and after hearing thereof by his sonne strooke him ouer the head with his bow that he died likewise grounding their opinion vpon the words of Lamech Gen. 4. where hee saith to his two wiues I haue slaine a man to my wounding and a young man to my hurt both which we leaue as vncertainties Q. By what signes doe we iudge men to be the more long or shorter lyued A. The life of man is compared vnto an Apple which being ripe drops downe of it selfe and sometimes in the immaturity is cast downe by windes and tempests The signes of a short life are ancientl● noted to be these three 1. Thinnenesse of Teeth 2. Longnesse of Fingers 3. Leaden or heauinesse of Colour The contrary or of a long life 1. Straight Shoulders 2. Wide Nostrils and the opposite aduerse signes that is 1. Many Teeth 2. Short Fingers and 3. A good Color Hereafter followeth a Triplicity of somemore diuine witty short and compendious Precepts and Conclusions to seuerall natures and purposes Q. THere are three inuisible vertues of God and which are they A. Power Goodnesse Wisedome which are thus explicated Of Power all things proceed Of Wisedome all things consist Of Goodnesse all things are gouerned Q. What was the wise mans Memento to preuent sinne A. Recordare nouissima non peccabis in ●ternum First to remēber these foure last things before wee accomplish any euill and then we shall seldome doe amisse which are Death Iudgement the paines of Hell and the ioyes of Heauen And they are so called for these foure reasons 1. Because Death is the end of life and the last thing which is to happen to vs in this world 2. Because this Iudgement is the last of all iudgements that are to bee giuen and therefore there is no appealing from it 3. Because Hell is the last euill that Malefactors are to haue and they are to remaine therein for euer 4. Because Heauen is the last good which the good are to haue and they are neuer to lose it Q. What foure things are those that most plainely proue the bookes of the Apocrypha not to be Canonicall A. 1. Because they are not written by any Prophet neither containe they any Prophesies in them 2. Because they were written in Greek and all the rest in Hebrew 3. Because Malachy the last of the Prophets saith that after him they should not looke for any other Prophet till the comming of Eliah that was S. Iohn Baptist. 4. Because the Author of the Machabeas in one place craueth pardon for his work and saith If it be not so wel as it shuld be yet it was as well as he could which is no fitting phrase for a Penman of the holy Scripture Q. There are three sayings found in Saint Pauls Epistles which are taken

most Catholicke 2 Because hee is King of many Kingdomes and so of much honour But we conclude the chiefe place and precedence belongeth to the Kingdome of England First in respect of antiquity for Brute was King of England when Alexander the first King of the Grecians called himselfe King of the whole world Secondly the King of England is anointed and so is no other king but the French King the King of Cicill and Ierusalem Thirdly the King of England is a Prince most absolute in all respects But the reason is for that England receiued the Christian faith before either France or Spaine notwithstāding the title of most Christian. There are 6. happy men among many others and these are they 1 Foelix qui Deum timet qui mundum odit qui nemini fert iniuriam 2 Foelix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas 3 Foelix qui didicit contentus viuere paruo 4 Foelix qui nihil debet 5 Foelix qui possidendo nihil omnia possidet 6 Foelix qui omnia quae vult habet 〈◊〉 mali vult Englished 1 Happy is hee which feares God hates the world doth no man iniury 2 Which hath learned to be content with a little 3 That owes nothing but loue 4 Which knowes the causes of things 5 Which possessing nothing yet inioyes all things in not desiring 9 That hath all that he desires and desires nothing that is hurtfull Q. What three things are those to be auoided A. 1 Medicus inctoctus 2 Cibus non coctus 3 Praua mulier An vnlearned Physician Meat ill dressed A wicked woman Q. Three things to bee bewayled and the● 〈◊〉 are they Tempus amissum Peccatum commissum Bonum omissum Time lost Sinne committed Good omitted Q. Who are the famous fooles A. A faithfull louer of an vnfaithfull friend An honest gamester A mercifull souldier Q. Three things are to be taken heed of an● these are they A dogges tooth A horse heele and A womans tongue Q. There are three things for which a wiseman should not giue counsell and which are they A. For another man to take a wife To make a voyage by sea To follow the warres Q. Three things concurre to make a man quickly rich and what are they A. The fall of wiues and the standing of sheepe and Bees Q. What foure things kill a man before his time A. A faire wife A troubled houshold Immoderate meat and drinke and A corrupt ayre Q. There be three shooing-hornes to pluck on a Cuckolds cap and what are they A. A faire wife A iealous husband A wanton louer Foure workes of a Tyrant 1 To destroy the good 2 To hate the poore 3 To extoll the euill 4 To root out the vertuous Q. What one thing is that that is bo●h the hardest and easiest thing of all other A. T is the hardest for a man to know himselfe and the easiest to deceiue himselfe Foure vnlikelihoods which yet sometimes come otherwise to passe He that is not Faire by 20. Strong by 30. Wise by 40. Rich by 50. T is vnlikely he will euer be any of them Q. When is the best time to vndertake a iourney A. To answer as one merrily answere● It is then when a man hath a good horse money in his purse and good companions Q. Two things thou maist shew but not lend and what are they A. Thy sword and thy wife which is thy scabberd Q. What in times past was the controu●● between the Coffin-maker and the Chest-ma● for superiority A. The Chest-maker vaunted that the commodity that he made was of greatest worth for that it lockt vp money that commanded all things But quoth the Coffin-maker The chest that I make lockes vp him that commands money euen the money-master himselfe and as the worthiest thing hee takes that with him when he leaues all other behind Q. What creatures are those that sleep with their eyes open A. The Lyon and the Hare that bold and fearefull creature Q. What binds faster then Obedience Wedlocke suspicion or necessity A. Fate and Death Q. It is an approued Maxime that in nature is no vacuity nothing produced in vaine and hath this generall rule euer passed without exception A. Not so for the wisest and most precious good but hath found some Momus to carpe at it and like the Wolfe turne their throat against the Moone to quarrell the highest and best things as to this purpose is here annexed a story of some triall Certaine ordinary Gentlemen meeting at an Ordinary amongst many propositions and discourses one to another according to the too much liberty of such places one at last began to fall into this admiration that since God and Nature the common parent● of all creatures produced nothing in vaine why man a creature of their principall workmanship in himselfe was altoget●● vanity For confirmation whereof sai●● he of some I knew a Countrey Church wel-furnished with a Clocke whose 〈◊〉 was stricken with an image like a man vpon the wheele stood a ca●● which when the image strucke made such haste away as 〈◊〉 parishioners when they should haue 〈◊〉 for their sinnes fell a laughing at the 〈◊〉 nimblenesse And to furnish the Ch●●● with better merriment their Parson 〈◊〉 conceited as their Clocke amongst 〈…〉 of his digressions falling to sp●●ke 〈…〉 prouidence of God and such like 〈…〉 sometimes in the first it might seeme weak to humane capacity when notwithstanding it was wise in the ends propounded As for example said hee Walking one euening in my garden vnder mine Apple tree I looked vp and saw the little Apples aduanced on the top of the high tree eminent to the sight whilst at my foot grew grubling the huge Million and the Pumpion as me thought vnseemely because obscurely on the ground Whereupon I began to thinke it had beene more seemely and fit that this worthier and fairer fruit should haue growne on the more high and perspicuous place and the apples neerer to the ground or in the place thereof when sodainly thus gazing vp to behold the vnfitnesse of their growing one blowes mee downe from the top of the high tree and hits me on the top of my bald head Being so amazed I began to thinke on mine owne folly for thought I then If this Pumpion had growne and fallen in this apples place it had knocked out my foolish braines To this seconded another to falsifie the generall proposition that Nature had erred in many t●●ngs and might as in others haue beene better aduised in these for a man to repent in and hee 〈◊〉 Repent a day before thy death Quo 〈…〉 that is ignotum per ignotius one vnknown● thing answerd by another more vnknowne For quoth he I know not when the day 〈◊〉 my death will be Why then quoth 〈◊〉 repent to day for for ought thou 〈◊〉 thy death may be to morrow Q. There are three powers of the soule 〈◊〉 signed vnto three parts of the body 〈…〉 are they A. Reason to the Head A 〈…〉 Heart Lust to the Liuor like 〈…〉 yeeldeth sense the Heart Life 〈…〉 nourishment Q. Why doth the bayre and nayle 〈…〉 man as also Onions and Garlicke 〈…〉 grow and increase after they are 〈…〉 thered A. Those haue their issue 〈…〉 out of the abundance of mo 〈…〉 in men though dead or these 〈…〉 not in a long time diminishe 〈…〉 Q. Why are Bastards 〈…〉 strong forward witty and 〈…〉 those which are legitimate an 〈…〉 locke A. Some thinke 〈…〉 〈…〉 vehement and perpetuall and 〈…〉 whatsoeuer outward heat is pre●●reunto is weakened by the grea 〈◊〉 ●●ued within which allayeth the 〈…〉 eof as the heat of the fire is aba 〈◊〉 beames of the Sunne 〈…〉 omes it that by looking vpon one 〈…〉 sore our owne many times be 〈…〉 〈…〉 done partly by the mutuall 〈◊〉 weene the eye and the eye but 〈…〉 lly because the eie doth attract 〈…〉 it beholds certaine rayes 〈…〉 nto it by which it sees and so 〈…〉 from thence what is infectious it 〈…〉 the likewise infected it selfe 〈…〉 doth the Tyranny of age most ap 〈…〉 it self thy changing the haire from 〈…〉 into white and dying the lockes 〈…〉 what meanes doth it most vsu 〈…〉 〈…〉 that Summer is decayed 〈…〉 approching on the frosts and 〈…〉 of she effecteth by drying 〈…〉 ch should digest superflu 〈…〉 ours through the defect 〈…〉 lly proceed 〈…〉 through the ouermuch much care and feare by which di 〈…〉 ned men affirme that some men 〈…〉 prehension of death haue grow 〈…〉 their youth euen at 25 yeeres o 〈…〉 Q. How doth the Basiliske poy 〈…〉 eye and the sight of the woolfe 〈…〉 voyce of him that beholdeth it 〈…〉 Poet To lurke farre off yet lodge de 〈…〉 The Basiliske doth poyson with 〈…〉 The Wolfe that howles for han 〈…〉 noyse Doth by her neere approach 〈…〉 voyce A. By infection of the ay●e 〈…〉 gre●s approacheth the ray 〈…〉 so likewise is the hoar●nesse 〈…〉 effected by drawing in ●y deg 〈…〉 after another till that app 〈…〉 infected by the first Wolue 〈…〉 red and destroyed in Eng 〈…〉 mand of King Edgar and 〈…〉 Princes had beene deuour 〈…〉 Q What substa●ce or 〈…〉 commonly oppresseth hea 〈…〉 and is commonly called th 〈…〉 A. The Night-ma 〈…〉 mour or bloud whi 〈…〉 〈…〉 the vitall spirits of those that 〈…〉 pecially on their backe in such 〈…〉 if some heauy weight or lumpe 〈…〉 heir stomack which they would 〈…〉 ff but cannot and is not as many 〈…〉 liuing thing or spirit 〈…〉 foure things are those that being 〈…〉 be recouered 〈…〉 Time Virginity a Word 〈…〉 erefore for many causes wee 〈…〉 them present and to a 〈…〉 in words especially for 〈…〉 easons 〈…〉 cause in multiloquy the wisest 〈…〉 fend 〈…〉 because it is a signe of folly 〈…〉 ecause many words are the 〈…〉 d●●tents displeasings 〈…〉 more manifest by these exam 〈…〉 〈…〉 the gates that are alwayes 〈…〉 time admit an enemy as 〈…〉 is euer vncouered is vn 〈…〉 infectious to which pur 〈…〉 Philosopher amongst 〈…〉 ing his peace and be 〈…〉 so answered Because 〈…〉 times for speaking but neuer