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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