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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63124	A cap of grey hairs for a green head, or, The fathers counsel to his son, an apprentice in London to which is added a discourse on the worth of a good name / by Caleb Trenchfield.	Trenchfield, Caleb, 1624 or 5-1671.	1671 (1671)	Wing T2118; ESTC R25830	77,548	215

conceal'd and commonly we discover them so much the more in being vext that we cannot but discover them To do which there must be a quick application of the eye to the looks of him whose sentiments you would discover at that very time when you think he is pincht that you may judge by the face which he makes whether it wrings him or no. There is also much of discovery to be made of the resentments of others by their sudden speeches which even from very discreet persons sometimes bluster forth and are not examined by the Court of guard and then especially when passions are up or affections violent 'T is therefore the part of a wise man to be a diligent observer of every word that passes though with as little observation from others as may be that you do observe For all such suspition begets caution and in vain is the net laid in the sight of the bird And here on the other hand 't is of great use to conceal your own resentments not to winch when you are toucht to the quick but to dissemble your sense till you have a due opportunity to discover it to your advantage For it very often is that we spoil our affairs by disclosing them before they are hatcht and turning them out into the world as ripe for execution which have still need of the secundine of further advice and consideration For which cause as time is the first of all things so is it the principal too it being almost impossible to do any thing well that is not done timely Neither is it less useful many times to cover altogether our apprehensions and seem to take no notice of those things which indeed do give us just cause of regret especially too when those we are to deal with are either too mighty for us or we expect may be beneficial to us Upon which account I remember I have read of Cosmus that it was not the least thing conducing to the inurement of his infant-dominion that he had the art of dissembling the insults of the Spanish pride and the envie of his suspitious Neighbours And therefore those forward tongues or peevish tempers which fling as soon as toucht and make it more to vent their present heats then consult their future conveniences Not onely create to themselves many troubles but also pull off the hair of those opportunities which otherwise in due time might have fairly presented themselves Yet on the other side there is no greater remora to mens affairs then that delatory slowness which however the fair gale of opportunity blows yet love to put off till to morrow and then set out like a Coach and six Horses with such tedious preparation that before all things are ready the Game 's started to their hand and they come just the day after the fair when with an irksom difficulty they are put to 't to retreive those things which but a while ago flew fair before them And here you may take notice that in the use of men 't is of huge advantage to observe the time for there is not that man to be found whose temper is so even as not to expose him sometimes more waxy for impression then at other times And if it were not so the very contingencies that happen do differently dispose us For which cause we are more inclin'd to be free to others when a prosperous gale hath breathed upon us and are ready then to give a crabbed answer when some peevish occasion before hath angred us And the Crasis of men as it is very divers so are they more or less complying as the present predominant humour is accidentally sedated or made sharper And therefore as cholerick persons are commonly peevish till they have din'd that the stomack have something in 't to imploy the active humour so are those that are flegmatick or melancholy rarely free or debonair till their more ponderous and dull ingredients are warm'd and made more active by the adventitious heat which wine or some strong liquor contributeth or their spirits awakened by some such pleasant company or discourse as may leave some tang behinde it And therefore choice of time will as much difference the success of your applications which you make to persons as wind and tide with or against shall speed or retard a passage And for this very cause in such cases 't is not ground enough to give up your hopes as desperate because you succeeded not at the first for a second or third time may finde the humour better dispos'd to receive the impressions which you intended But however be always advised never to resist one humour with the like For it is excellently advantagious when passion is up to look on and with a sedated minde to observe the indiscreet passages which then occur whereby every person lays himself open at such a rate as renders him not a little obnoxious to the retorts of him that with a composed spirit takes notice of them And that this is so is easily discovered if you reflect when you are return'd to your own bent upon that exorbitance and indiscretion which in those wilde fits you flew out into For which cause to oppose passion with passion seldom produceth other effect then a too-late repentance for both And 't will be found abundantly better to put on your Mittens and handle the passionate with as much softness as may be And I have known men of that tune whom in the fit you 'd have thought irrefragable plan'd by this means to as much smoothness as could reasonably be expected And whereas if in snuff and distaste you may fling away from such re infecta a little patience and good words may do your business and send you away with what you come for But take this as a general caution to deal as little as may be with those over topping men to whom a man cannot with confidence come and demand his own Upon which account I 'll tell you a publick story of which you may make a private application It was disputed in the days of Queen Mary in a Parliament then holden whether if the Queen should have a Childe the Tutelage of it and some places of strength should be put in King Philips hand the King offering his Bond faithfully to deliver up his trust if the Childe should dye And the greater number of the House inclining to the affirmative as concluding that so great a Kings Bond was an ample security the Lord Paget stands up and demands if the King should refuse to do as he is bound upon the death of the Childe who shall put his Bond in suit and where which demand was so difficult to finde an answer that the business fell without more ado And 't is much one to have dealings with those who have so great an influence on our affairs that we must be content with what measure they 'll give us for to knock off or contest if we like not our matters

heard him discourse of Philosophical and Theological controversies as much to my admiration as it was beyond what I did expect And I also observed that he did greatly vindicate himself from that contempt which his youth might subject him to by his accompanying with such persons as were esteemed wise for the world could not but conclude that he either was wise or would soon be so whose company was such And you will sinde this a rare advantage in conversing with knowing men that you will have at hand those who are able to advise you and willing too if you be but so to take it For there is a natural indulgence that every knowing person hath over those that are ignorant which makes them willing and ready to enlarge to them the relief of good counsel when they need it And if counsel be the strength of Kingdoms it can be of no less use in our private concerns if God give us an heart to ask and take it for when young men are advised by those like themselves giddy headed and precipitate which commonly they like best because it suits their humours they are intangled like young Rehoboam in those incumbrances whence they cannot explicate themselves by a too late repentance therefore take such for your companions who have already sow'd their wilde oats and are by long hunting grown too stanch to set an haunt by which means you 'll reap the benefit of their dear-bought experience and prevent your own But chiefly take care to fix upon such company who are persons studious of their reputations men not of a dirty and degenerous temper For some there are whom nature hath moulded up of the coursest clay whose not onely brains represent meer rubbish but their very dispositions are of those sordid faeces which give a tendencie to condescend to the most ignoble and abject things whence they 'll never think much howsoever vilely to abuse or betray you when as those who are of an elate and generous spirit have a natural reluctancie to those things which they judge unworthy and are hardly induc'd by the extremest necessity to comply with that which degenerate tempers never make dainty of And upon this account also never sort your self with such persons as are below you for as their reputations will not bear an equal ballance with yours so must yours be as much deprest as may make it even with theirs and so must your expences be as much beyond your own proportion as their quality is below that which you pretend to and they will have a confidence to slip their heads out of the collar and leave you to pay all as if they had done you a kinde of courtesie in acknowledging your superiority And 't is pretty to observe how such will claw the itch of your petty ambition with such titles of dignity as they think will please you till they have laid you in a sweat and made your pores open and you become melted to effund according to their humour But above all avoid such company as are given to drink for with whom are wounds without cause but with them that are mighty to drink strong drink The drunken man being fera humana specie and therefore such are as unfit for converse as she-Bears and Lyons who conscious of their own ferity walk alone while more mansuete Creatures associate themselves in Flocks and Herds Clitus slain by Alexander and an hundred more examples tell what a Devil is drink which if it raign any where in the possessed most it is in our own Country where they ply their business beyond compare and are computed to drink more Sack in a year then any other Nation doth in three And though the German did bear away the Bell for drinking yet it was rather long then much being content to pelt his enemy at a distance Whereas we are after the modern way of fight altogether for down-blows being impatient till the opposite have a total rout The drinking of Healths too being a designe like that of the servants of David and Saul at the Pool of Gibeon where they took each other by the Beards and every one smote his fellow under the fifth rib that they fell down together If therefore you love your body your soul your credit or your purse let such persons be imprison'd for the most part they are in the Tavern or Ale-house and do not you come neer them Neither let such be your associates as have been nefarious or have a brand of guilt upon them for judgement though it be slow yet 't is sure And though God have long patience yet he hath long hands too and reacheth the guilty at a great distance between the sin and the punishment which doth not seldom involve with it after the Persian mode their familiars too Neither do we read any other immediate cause of the death of Ahaziah then that he was in the company of King Joram then when God was executing judgement upon the house of Ahab In the sense of which story tells of St. John the Apostle that he run out of the Bath into which the Heretick Cerinthus came lest as Corah and his company he should be involv'd with him in the same judgement For which cause we read of that advice Come out of her my people and be ye not partakers of her sins lest ye be partakers also of her plagues But let such be your company as for whose sakes God may bless you also such as Joseph of whom 't is said Gen. 39.5 That after the time that Joseph was made overseer of Potiphars house that God blessed the Egyptian for Josephs sake and the blessing of the Lord was upon all that he had in the house and in the field And verily when we read that God would have spared five Cities for the sake but of ten persons Gen. 18. and that God did spare one of them for but the conveniencie of Lot Gen. 19.21 we cannot sufficiently take a seantling how far the interest of a good man doth impose upon the Almighty and what an advantage it is to have a share in their prayers who have so much of favour in the Court of Heaven But besides consider what a benefit it is to be conducted in the ways that are good by the splendor of the vertue of those that are our familiars to have such about us as shall be ready to say Come let us go up to the house of the Lord and present thee with motions of well-doing instead of those who shall play the Devils part and tempt thee to evil Now in thy conversation with thy familiars be advised in a few things 1. Let not thy friendship to them induce thee at any time to do that which is evil The saying of St. Augustine may well be applyed Amicus Plato amicus Cicero sed magis amicus Christus The greatest friendship is to be useful for heaven And where the highest relations wherein nature hath obliged us intrench upon